Context Title: Ur Hinterland     
Context Name (Publication): Ur Hinterland     
Context Description: This term describes the area around Ur. It includes the sites surrounding Ur from where objects were brought in by the workers.      

Objects: Ur Hinterland Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
821 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl of rose-pink mottled stone (marble?)
820 (none) (none) B14979 Stone bowl of coarse whitish limestone, almost of marble.
819 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fragment of: of Light blue-grey mottled stone, loose grained.
818 (none) 1923,1110.62 (none) Stone bowl of grey fine-grained slatey stone. Broken, but virtually complete. Sides straight, base flat.
817 (none) (none) B14981 Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Broken in half and some fragments missing. Sides practically straight, base flat.
816 (none) 1923,1110.66 (none) Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Almost straight sides, flat base. Broken but complete.
815 (none) (none) (none) Stone bown. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Straight sides curve in strongly to base marked by a slight disk. Rim chipped.
814 (none) (none) B14980 Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Sides slightly curved, base flat.
813 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of fine-grained date-colored stone, sides slightly curved, base flat.
812 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Straight sides, flat base.
8113 (none) (none) B17212 Terracotta plaque. Bottom half missing. In low relief. Two upright figures heavily draped and wearing conical headdresses stand with hands upraised facing either side of vertical post. Post is broader below than above. It has a narrow neck and a concave top broader than the neck, supporting what may be a crescent moon? Behind each standing figures a mace with a rounded head, fixed vertically in the ground. [drawing 1:1]
8112 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Heavily draped goddess hands clasped below breast. Missing below waist. Hair done up in a bandeau which is worn high over the forehead. Markings on the forehead below the bandeau. These may be intended to represent fringes of hair? or jewellry? 2 horns are on either side of head over the ear. Hair ends in a thick bunch on either side of ear. Behind the head a feathered headdress (sheaves of corn?). Goddess wears necklace consisting of 3 strings of small beads and below the 3 strings a fourth of heavy beads with a large central bead. Top of dress consists of 2 thick bands falling from each shoulder and forming the angle of a V between the breasts. Band appears to be raised on left shoulder. Thick sleeves pleted at elbows. Heavy wrist-bangles. [drawing 1:1]
8111 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Made from a mould. Missing below waist. Nude female wearing necklace and wrist bangles, hands clasped below breast. Thick bandeau to keep in the hair which hangs loose behind the ears. [drawing 1:1]
811 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of greenish-grey loose-grained stone resembling lava. Sides slightly curved, base flat.
810 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of greenish-grey loose-grained stone resembling lava. Flat base, straight sides. Type JN23 new.
7920 (none) (none) B16900 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top.
7914 (none) 1928,1009.474 (none) Terracotta dog? Black lines painted down back and sides. Traces of harness? Projecting ridge over head and top of back and horizontal band round top of tail. Horizontal ridges below neck running across back and beneath belly. [drawing 1:1]
7898 (none) 1928,1010.243 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene to seated Nannar. Minor deity leads votary by the hand. Criss-cross markings. IIIrd Ur Dynasty.
7897 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Black. 2 spread eagles. Reversed and undulating toothed band running between them and round the body of the seal.
7847 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of clay brick stamp. (Dungi). HC.51
7846 (none) (none) (none) Stone fragment. Steatite. Containing two archaic signs. HC.50. B.
7823 (none) (none) (none) Brick not identified about 26 lines.
7796 (none) (none) (none) Brick Siniddinam inscription, and marked [drawing of two crescents] = U3115, the only other example?
777 (none) 1923,1110.112 (none) Terracotta mask fr. of. in pinkish-drab clay. [drawing 1:1]
7715 (none) 1928,1009.4 (none) Brick. Siniddinam, inscription on edge = U.3115 (some variants?), incomplete and without showing the 2 crescents of U.3115. HC.15.

Media: Ur Hinterland Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods 1955 Woolley, L. (none)
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
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