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)
15735 (none) 1935,0113.76 (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded deity wearing horned headdress, long lock of hair ending in a curl over the shoulder, beard descending to waist , and supporting a mace against each shoulder. Missing below waist.
15731 (none) 1935,0113.75 (none) Terracotta figurine. Upper portion of female wearing a voluminous wig covering both sides of face as well as head.
6900 (none) 1935,0113.744 (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Rim inscribed. Fragmentary. Inscription apparently complete. [drawing]
15730 (none) 1935,0113.74 (none) Terracotta figurine. Full face in low relief of figure with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic body. Forehead missing & missing below waist. Grotesque head with a long lock of hair falling on each shoulder curled at the end, centipede like appearance. Pincer like hands tips of which touch one another on the breast. Figure wears two necklaces and flannel kaukanes coat sleeves descending only to the elbow.
15726 (none) 1935,0113.73 (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragment. Missing above waist. Lower half of nude female with bangles round lower portion of leg above feet.
3162E (none) 1935,0113.55 (none) Terracotta chariot wheels.
2693 (none) 1935,0113.53 (none) Clay dog (?). Fragmentary, in act of barking: legs and tail missing.
2692 (none) 1935,0113.52 (none) Terracotta figurine. Buff ware: female, mitred, with forearms raised to shoulders: head and trunk only. [drawing 1:1]
2517 (none) 1935,0113.49 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Nude female, head and trunk only. [drawing 1:1]
2513 (none) 1935,0113.48 (none) Figurine. Drab clay. Nude female, head and torso only. [drawing 1:1]
1626 (none) 1935,0113.46 (none) Figurine. Fragment, bust only. Light drab clay; moulded. Male(?) figure with right shoulder base and cloak thrown over left.
18207A (none) 1935,0113.454 (none) Beads. A mixed lot, largely paste. The bulk were said to be from one grave. Yellow, blue and white rings and double conoids. Glass paste rings, dark grey; with the some stone beads which may not belong to the main set.
1578 (none) 1935,0113.45 (none) Clay figurine. fragment of, bust only; drab clay; moulded. Female figure with necklace, high headdress, & curled locks of hair; (chipped and weathered).
1568 (none) 1935,0113.44 (none) Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Reddish clay: moulded. Female figure, holding lance in each hand, two crescents above.
1549 (none) 1935,0113.43 (none) Relief. Small fragment. Red clay; moulded. Including female head and breast and part of another figure.
1534 (none) 1935,0113.42 (none) Figurine. Fragment. Head and legs below knees broken off, drab clay: moulded. Female figure, nude, with bracelets, left arm raised.
1463 (none) 1935,0113.41 (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Apparently showing feet of a god standing upon an animal: indistinct.
1461 (none) 1935,0113.40 (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Lower part with feet of skirted figure.
1460 (none) 1935,0113.39 (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Bottom with feet of human figure. The base is rounded out to form a stand.
17942 (none) 1935,0113.386 (none) Ear studs. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
1457 (none) 1935,0113.38 (none) Figurine fragment. Clay. Middle part of a naked woman.
10634 (none) 1935,0113.376 (none) Diorite ? fragment of Gate-socket! with part of a Semitic inscription. [struck out "(about NeoBab. period)"] =Nabonidus, U.806 H.C.9
1394 (none) 1935,0113.37 (none) Drab clay. Fragment. Moulded. Heads of 2 figures, one with horned headdress.
1380 (none) 1935,0113.36 (none) Figurine. Fragment. Waist upwards only, drab clay: moulded. Female figure with high double headdress (weathered).
1363 (none) 1935,0113.35 (none) Figurine. Head and feet broken off. Drab clay: moulded. Nude female figure.

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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