Fragments
This category includes pieces of vessels such as sherds and shards.
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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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 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] |
![]() | 1582 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment. From large jar(?) Red clay. With part of scorpion (claws broken off) in high relief under rim. [drawing: not to scale] |
![]() | 1583 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment. From jar or vase. Greenish drab clay. With part of scorpion(claws) in high relief under rim. [drawing: not to scale] |
![]() | 2572 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ring. Pottery: roughly joined. Depth 2m-5m. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 2605 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pottery fragment. Buff clay, inscribed with couchant lion. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 3203A | (none) | 1927,1003.259 | (none) | Bone handle. Rest of object lost. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 3345 | (none) | 1927,1003.142 | (none) | Pottery fragment. Incised diamond pattern on outside: on inside, jeweller's design with seated god and small figure before it. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 6168 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of baked clay bowl. Light drab. Upper portion only. Incised criss cross markings below rim, made out of wet clay. |
![]() | 6208 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Black burnished bowl. Clay fragments. ? New typed. |
![]() | 6463 | (none) | 1927,0527.60 | (none) | Semi-circular bar of white marble. U-shaped = ends flat, near each end a small hole bored through stone on the diameter of the semi-circule - broken in antiquity and riveted. Suggest that this is the loop ornament figured in early sculpture on door jambs or on lances set upright by the sides of doors: the ends might fit into holes in the wooden upright and the small holes would serve for attachment to same by means of copper wires. E. [drawing] |
![]() | 6515 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Red clay bowl. Fragment. Stamped decoration below rim, triangles with invested bases above and concentric circles below. |
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