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)
7126 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Crystal. Grey. Linear markings. B.
7125 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers. Procession of figs towards seated goddess. Below. 2 crossed animals. On either side a lion. B. Before 3000 BC.
7122 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 2 worshippers and palm branch rising out of vase. Inscribed. 2300 BC. B.
7121 (none) (none) B16289 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Palm branch between 2 worshippers, who hold hand upraised. Attributes: Crescent moon, Rampant Lion. 2400 BC. E.
7120 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Linear decoration. Before 3000
7119 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink steatite. Unpierced: Babaa damkar, son of Buzua. IIIrd Dyn. of Larsa. B.
7118 (none) (none) B16288 Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers. Upper register. Spend eagle between 2 gazelles - standing club. Below. Net. Before 3000 BC. E.
7117 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Blue grey. Scene of worship. Introduction of votary to Marduk? who hold a lance. Attributes: lance. 1st Bab. Dyn. B.
7116 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Yellowish. Linear decoration. 2 registers. Before 3000 BC. B.
7111 47-29-159 (none) B16266 Terracotta plaque. Fragmentary. Bearded god? Seated on a bull left arm bent at elbow and holding an object right hand held against breast. E. [drawing 1:1]
7110B (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. God. Full face down to waist. Below in profile. Bearded god with cows' ears, wearing high horned headdress. Left hand held horizontally against waist, right hand at side. God wears open skirt, right leg covered; left leg exposed. B. [drawing 1:1]
7109 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Male and female, full face standing side by side - probably god and goddess. Both clothed in flounced skirts, female has right shoulder exposed. Male figure is bearded and wears close fitting cap on head, against right shoulder a flail. Female wears the high horned headdress of a goddess and a heavy necklace. Both are standing on a narrow band in relief, which may represent the threshold. E. [drawing 1:1]
7108 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Seated female, grotesque figure, abnormally large hands held against breast, hair done up in thick bunches at side. Heavy necklaces. Pellet eyes. [drawing 1:1]
7107 (none) (none) B16255 Terracotta Figurine. Naked female, hands clasped against waist. Common type. [drawing 1:1] E
7098 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu. Head of white shell. B. [drawing 1:1]
7074 (none) 1927,0527.232 (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded male holding lamb to breast. Fragmentary below waist. E.
7071 (none) 1927,0527.226 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female in Kaunakees dress, right shoulder exposed holding suckling child against breast. Feet of female lost. E. [drawing 1:1]
7067 (none) 1927,0527.141 (none) Bull. Pendant. Pink steatite. E. [drawing 1:1]
7066 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Oblong flat one side, convex the other, ends just wide enough fro usual seal hole. Greenish jadeite, on flat side 5 birds. Before 3000BC. B.
7064 (none) (none) B16269 Terracotta mould. Enthroned figure - female? Wearing flounced Kaukenes skirt. E.
7063 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta boat. Common type. B.
7059 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Miniature. Light greenish drab. Type LVII. RC.75. (not p)
7058 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXV. =P.189. Neo-Babylonian.
7034 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Warrior trampling on foe clothed in short coat which only down to the knees. [drawing 1:1]
7028 (none) (none) (none) Collection of crystals for inlay. About 25 in number. U shaped with apex over incurved side. E. [drawing 1:1]

Media: Ur Hinterland Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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

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