Fragments

This category includes pieces of vessels such as sherds and shards. Sherds are used to denote ceramic bodies, shards for metal and glass.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
8935C	(none)	(none)	B16749	[A-C] 3 handles? Apparently 3 rods made of rings alternately white shell and black shale (?) strung on a reed, the whole ending in a shell handle-knob. [drawing 1:1]
8914	(none)	(none)	B16748	(none)
10952	(none)	(none)	B16713	Lapis handle (?) Octagonal in section with through it a hole increasing in size to an oval 20mm, long. [drawing]
6657B	(none)	(none)	B16434	Copper? Handles? Arched. Rounded tops and nail head bases. E. Philadelphia? [drawing 1:2]
1593	(none)	(none)	B15658	Fragment of jar? Decorated with nude female figure in relief, moulded and affixed to surface of jar: drab clay. The surface is also decorated with incised lines and circles. P.
1206	(none)	(none)	B15612, B15612	Pot sherd, upon the outside of which promiscuous cuneiform signs have been inscribed in an archaic hand, presumably as practice. P.
256	(none)	(none)	B14947, B14947	Stone fragment of vase. Inscribed with a dedication by a priest of Nannar. Copied. Placed in IN/No. 1.
249	(none)	(none)	B14940, B14938	Limestone fragment. Inscribed with a votive inscription probably a duplicate of that on the stone cone of Ur-Engur. Joined to U.270. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No 1.
246	(none)	(none)	B14939	Limestone fragment. Inscribed with a dedication by Ur-Engur. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 1
259	(none)	(none)	B14935, B14935	Alabaster fragment of vase. Inscribed with a text mentioning the destruction of ninni-IB [Crossed out] Erin-Ki (i.e. Susa) and the dedication of the vase from the booty. Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No. 1.
71	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone handle(?) As if for a small surgical (?/ instrument decorated with incised lines and dots, pierced longitudinally. [drawing 1:1]
253	(none)	1923,1110.20	(none)	Fragment of stone jar. Inscribed by Rimush of Agade. Placed in IN/No 1.
254	(none)	1923,1110.27	(none)	Fragment of alabaster jar. Inscribed. Dedicated to dDungi by his daughter ME-dEnlil. Copied and Translated. Placed in IN/No.1
255	(none)	1923,1110.23	(none)	Alabaster fragment of jar. Inscribed.
257	(none)	1923,1110.15	(none)	Alabaster fragment of jar. Inscribed. Dedication by [crossed out] for (?) [annotated] Dungi. Part of same bowl as U.248. Joined to U.248 and 260. Copied and Transliterated Placed in IN/No. 1
258A	(none)	1923,1110.24	(none)	[A-B] Two alabaster jar fragments. Inscribed in a rude way with a primitive text. Placed in IN/No. 1.
258B	(none)	1923,1110.24	(none)	[A-B] Two alabaster jar fragments. Inscribed in a rude way with a primitive text. Placed in IN/No. 1.
281	(none)	1923,1110.33	(none)	Fragment of stone vessel. Showing lip and five rows of depressions for inlay. Shaped [drawing of shape]. Inscribed ".....king of Ur."
671	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone handle. Decorated with an incised guilloche pattern. [drawing 1:1]
726	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of inscribed terracotta vessel. Trace of 9 lines, illegible. Placed in Packing Case D.
749	(none)	(none)	(none)	Small fragment of obsidian, with parts of signs from 2 lines. Illegible.
965	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pottery base-ring. Drab clay, wheelmade. Complete. Type XCVIII.
1395	(none)	1924,0920.118	(none)	Fragment. (probably a vase) Reddish clay. Incised female figure holding up hands, with neck and head of ostrich on right. Rudely drawn.
1500	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment. Rim of jar; yellow clay; wheelmade; with head of bird in relief below rim; thereare four holes through rim, and part of 2 others large below. [drawing 2:5]
1564	(none)	1924,0920.386	(none)	Pottery fragment. Drab clay. Glazed with pattern on yellow ground of purplish-blue with white squares. This fragment resembles glazed ware found at Asshur and in Cyprus. [drawing 1:1]