British Museum

Museum in London, UK. Co-sponsor of the expedition to Ur.

Museum founded in 1753 in London, UK, the first national public museum in the world. Opened to the public in 1759. Entry was free and given to ‘all studious and curious Persons’. The collections represent cultures from around the world. A pioneer of Mesopotamian archaeology. The museum is a public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.  http://www.britishmuseum.org/

 

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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)
9 (none) 1923,1110.72 (none) Clay pot. Fine red clay, wheelmade, with bright hematitic slip. Pointed base. Type I.
16 (none) 1923,1110.82 (none) Clay bowl. Pinkish drab clay with creamy engobbage. Wheelmade. Rounded base. Hole drilled through side. Type V.
19 (none) 1935,0113.628 (none) Clay truncated cone. (broken). Inscribed on base and barrel. [Annotation] Building inscription of Warad-Sin SAKI-212c. Duplicates:U.334; U.753; U.700; U.878; U.751 [Annotation] Recording the king's building of E-temen-ni-gur-ru, for his life and that of his father Kudur-Mabug. (restores and completes a previously known insription) Placed in IN/No.3. Ur Texts I:R.I.131
25 (none) 1923,1110.95 (none) Clay model bed. Greenish clay and mattress pattern in relief. [drawing] [Annotated] Photo 38
30 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of clay circular tablet. (school exercise type) [drawing]. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No 2
(none) (none) 1923,1110.182 (none) (none)
34A (none) 1923,1110.167 (none) Beads in gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian: found loose and restrung as follows (A) Gold ram: small figurine in thin metal, hollow, pierced for threading. Fine work. Photo no. 39 length 0.016 (B) String of lapis and gold beads [drawing] thus [refers to drawing], graded in size, 43 gold and 45 lapis, and a circular rosette pendant of open work gold. Photo no. _ length 085 (C) String of carnelian beads, 40 in all, 2 gold ring terminals, 4 gold pear pendants, 2 carnelian pear pendants on gold, one plate pendant of carnelian with white design on gold. Photo no. 39 length 008 (D) String of 10 gold and 20 lapis nasturtium-seed beads with six lapis pear pendants on gold and one lapis fly amulet. photo no. _ length 0155 (E) String of small lapis beads strung in 2 rows with lapis spacers at ends of 8 gold mulberry(?)-leaf pendants, a triangular gold spacer, one lapis beads bound with gold wire and a triple gold beads (these 2 as a pendant) Photo. No. 39. length 0.165
34E (none) 1928,1010.107 (none) Beads in gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian: found loose and restrung as follows (A) Gold ram: small figurine in thin metal, hollow, pierced for threading. Fine work. Photo no. 39 length 0.016 (B) String of lapis and gold beads thus [refers to drawing], graded in size, 43 gold and 45 lapis, and a circular rosette pendant of open work gold. [drawing] Photo no. _ length 085 (C) String of carnelian beads, 40 in all, 2 gold ring terminals, 4 gold pear pendants, 2 carnelian pear pendants on gold, one plate pendant of carnelian with white design on gold. Photo no. 39 length 008 (D) String of 10 gold and 20 lapis nasturtium-seed beads with six lapis pear pendants on gold and one lapis fly amulet. photo no. _ length 0155 (E) String of small lapis beads strung in 2 rows with lapis spacers at ends of 8 gold mulberry(?)-leaf pendants, a triangular gold spacer, one lapis beads bound with gold wire and a triple gold beads (these 2 as a pendant) Photo. No. 39. length 0.165
52 (none) 1923,1110.168 (none) Gold coil ring. The ends flattened and leaf shaped. [drawing 1:1]
53 (none) 1923,1110.170 (none) Gold mouth piece. Formed of thin gold plate cut to shape as below: [references drawing] The ends of the band pierced for stringing. [drawing]
54 (none) 1923,1110.190 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Engraved with scene of worshipper being introduced to a god standing in front of a gate.
55 (none) 1923,1110.191 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Broken in half and chipped down one side. Scene: 3 figures in a row advancing l[eft]. Found with beads round neck of body in larnax burial.
67A (none) 1923,1110.200 B15239 Clay seals 2. From wheat-sack fastening cords each bearing stamps of oval seals. on (A) pegasus, lion, stag. on (B) lion(?), Bucranium, etc. [Annotated] B and Phil
77 (none) 1923,1110.136 (none) Green glazed pottery stand. [drawing 1:1]
79 (none) 1923,1110.40 (none) Clay brick-stamps, Fr. of with figs in bold relief. [drawing 1:1]
90 (none) 1923,1110.71 (none) Clay pot. Drab clay, wheelmade, with fine creamy engobbage. Type I.
94 (none) 1923,1110.47 (none) Frgs of alabaster vase. Decorated with winged ram in high relief. [drawing]
99 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of Clay Cone. Duplicate of one found by Taylor with an inscription recording a dedication to the Sun-god by Enannatum, a priest of the Moon-god, for the life of Gunguau, King of Ur (and Larsa).
107 (none) 1923,1110.98 (none) Clay relief. Moulded: seated man and woman, embracing: full flounced Sumerian skirts. [drawing 1:1]
128 (none) 1923,1110.111 (none) Clay relief. Upper part only: rudely moulded. [drawing 1:1]
133 (none) 1923,1110.96 (none) Clay stool. 1 - leg missing. [drawing]
151 (none) 1923,1110.105 (none) Clay figurine. Moulded in relief. Ordinary Ishtar type: head missing. [drawing 1:1]
155 (none) 1923,1110.183 (none) Beads, string of found loose in soil together and re-strung. Large yellow paste and light carnelian, 13 in all.
159 (none) 1923,1110.115 (none) Clay figurine of a sow. [drawing]
178 (none) 1923,1110.46 (none) Statuette. Red stone. A winged bull or sphinx (?), couched, the head missing: in the back a small cup-like hollow. FGN drawing. [drawing]

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