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)
7630 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Blue steatite. Two registers. Top: 7 figures clothed in short tunics reaching only to the knees approaching standing deity. All wear feathered? headdress. Bottom: male figure running, pursued? by animals amongst which are cows??
7628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Font from which rises a palm? On either side a snake? and beyond a hero attacking rampant lion with a sword. Possibly the curved markings at the side of the altar may represent not snakes but handles or running water? [drawing] cf. U.7640
7620 (none) (none) B16813 41 lapis lazuli beads. 5 bugle beads, 2 barrel beads, 1 double conoid, rest ball beads.
7617 (none) (none) B16877 Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC
7610 (none) (none) (none) Bangle. Bronze? One end missing. [drawing 1:1]
7598 (none) (none) (none) Rattle in form of terracotta pig. Part of head and 2 legs missing. Incised line down back and incised parallel curves down sides to indicate hair? [drawing 1:1]
7594 (none) 1928,1009.145 (none) Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1]
7586 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Diorite. Blue grey. Bottom chipped. Type VI.
7573 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 48 frit beads and frog amulet in frit. Lentoids, ring beads, conoids, ball and bangle beads. Arbitrarily strung. IIIrd Dyn of Ur.
7569 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Yellowish and white. Scene of worship, seated god and two standing figures mostly obliterated.
7563 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Frog. Frit. [faint drawing]
7558 (none) 1928,1009.144 (none) Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1]
7555 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Head broken from body. [drawing 1:1]
7553 (none) 1928,1009.16 (none) Cylinder seal. Frit. Grey. Stag, 2 stars, upright pole? Spear sticking vertically in ground. Persian.
7549 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary below waist. Bearded god with thick protruding nose, wearing high conical cap with a peak which has a triangular parting to it on the middle of the forehead. Against the breast, on either side of the beard the tops of long staves? Wide square shoulders. Two rounded plaits of hair one on either side of head fall just below cap. On either side of breast rosettes and below beard an inverted crescent moon. [drawing 1:1]
7542 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta head. Lower part of beard missing. Grotesque. Pellet eyes and sharp ridge to nose. Lower part of face incised. Thick bandeau round head. [drawing 1:1]
7538 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Goddess seated on throne with concave seat and no back. Full face down to waist except for arms. Legs in profile. High horned headdress, hair falls down on either side of shoulders and ends in a large curl. High flounced kaunakes dress with long and wide sleeves. Left forearm exposed to show bangle. cf. U. _
7537 (none) 1928,1009.465 (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragmentary and in poor condition. 2 gods in profile facing one another. God bearded and wearing high headdress, supports an axe? with a curved handle, head of axe resting on left shoulder left forearm parallel with ground. God has a very pronounced Jewish nose. Upper part of goddess fragmentary, both wear flounced kaunakes skirt, left shoulders bare. [drawing 1:1]
7534 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Diorite. Blue. Duck's head broken off. Type VI.
72 (none) (none) B15192 Clay mask. The eyes are pierced right through and filled with paste, originally blue: there is a hole at the top for suspension. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil
7140 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Fragment. Warriors on either side of doorway of shrine. Lances standing upright from the ground: above crescent moon, geese and fish. [drawing 1:1]
7134 (none) (none) B16431 Adze head. Bronze. Cf. U.6137 Larsa type. E.
7129 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Spread eagle, vase with palm branch and worshippers on either side. Before 3000 BC. E.
7128 (none) 1927,0527.187 (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Fragment. 2 crossed ibex? Attacked by rampant lion and on the other side by Gilgamesh. Before 3000 BC. E.
7127 (none) (none) B16295 Cylinder seal. White shell. Winged gate over crouching bull on right, a seated goddess on left, and kneeling Gilgamesh both holding gate with ropes. Before 3000 BC? E.

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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