The National Museum of Iraq
This museum is located in Baghdad, Iraq. It has about half of the objects from Ur.
The National Museum of Iraq is located in Baghdad and contains relics from the Mesopotamian Civilization. It was closed in 2003 and re-opened in 2015. This museum has about half of the objects from Ur.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9999C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver |
| 9999B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver |
| 9999A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver |
| 9970 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal White shell In poor condition Presentation scene with one seated deity and three figures approaching |
| 996B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. Grey Steatite Broken. Hemispherical with Projecting spout square in section and pierced by a hole below the rim. Rime decorated with diagnonal stripes: Round sides, belwo rim, a band of compass-drawn incised circles. |
| 9958 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pan Inside it a shallow copper tray inverted [Type I] [drawing] |
| 9949 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold finger ring Very small; a hoop of flat metal, thin, decorated with 2 strands of applied twisted gold wire |
| 9943 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal White Shell A man and lions fighting, and a lion fighting a bull, a small animal scene, and an inscription. dsara-men (?) dub-sar nin sara-men, scribe of the lady. Into the hole is fitted a tube of dark shale (?). (HC. 205). |
| 9935B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead. |
| 9935A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead. |
| 9909 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Plaque Engraved with animal scene. Poor condition & figure indistinct. |
| 9908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Fighting animals(?) rough and worn example. |
| 9907C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black. |
| 9907B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black. |
| 9907A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black. |
| 9906 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Inlay Small figure in silhouette (head missing) A servant (?) wearing a fringed skirt advances left holding with both hands two piles of pots, each pile containing 4 ordinary tumblers [drawing] 1:1 |
| 9905 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Inlay Small figure in silhouette, broken, and the head missing Male(?) figure wearing kaukanes of early type with 3 rows of fringes, advancing left. In the left hand a short staff [drawing] 1:1 Good early work. |
| 9900 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold & copper earrings 1 gold and 1 copper intertwined Lunate hollow ends giving the appearance of a bag |
| 9892A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 9888 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Calcite Translucent Type__ |
| 9885 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp Imitation of shell with hollow trough spout [drawing] |
| 988 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone fragment. Portions of 3 line inscription. |
| 9879 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold earring Lunate ends [drawing] |
| 9858 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Grey limestone. Scene of worship within the gates of a shrine. Seated god with an attendant carrying a bucket behind him. The seated god greets a standing figure. The scene occurs behind gates consisting of two posts stuck into the ground connected by loop-shaped attachments. |
| 9857 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bucket With handle Type__ |
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