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)
1369 31-16-934 (none) B19341 Figurine. Fragment. Shoulders downwards only: drab clay: moulded. Figure in pleated skirt holding an emblem in each hand.
1113 31-16-910 (none) B19317 Clay Figurine. Fragment of. below waist downwards; seated. moulded. drab clay [drawing 1:1]
1662 (none) (none) B17456 Copper bowl. Fragments.
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]
7687 (none) (none) B17210 Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Hands clasped below breast. Missing below knees. Hair represented by fine parallel raised bands and flowing down at side onto shoulders. [drawing 1:1]
8556 (none) (none) B17205 Terra cotta relief A god, head full face, body profile left, seated on a ram. Flat rimmed cap, beard elaborately curled: right hand extended open, left holding whip: long open cloak to ankles. Fine example. [drawing 1:1]
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.
7658 (none) (none) B16890 Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star.
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
7678 (none) (none) B16818 Puzuzu. Miniature head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1]
7661 (none) (none) B16817 Necklace. 39 frit beads.
7643 (none) (none) B16814 Necklace. Blue paste beads. Arbitrarily restrung. Bugle and ring beads and 1 axe head spacer. Some of the beads have incised lines running round circumference.
7620 (none) (none) B16813 41 lapis lazuli beads. 5 bugle beads, 2 barrel beads, 1 double conoid, rest ball beads.
7665 (none) (none) B16763 Miniature head. Stone. Grey. For inlay, flat back. Large hollow eye sockets. Eyeballs originally inlaid, missing. Only upper half of cheeks and portion of chin represented. Beard of different material probably fitted on to lower portion of face.
6914 (none) (none) B16638 Clay bowl. Light drab. Type XXXIX(?) =RC.160mm (not a bowl) (not p)
6512B (none) (none) B16624 [A-G] Pots (7) =P138 var.
6201A (none) (none) B16616 Miniature clay pots. Light drab. 1:2 approximate. Type 628 approximately =P.111. [drawing 1:2]
6916 (none) (none) B16602 Clay vase. Light drab. 3rd Dynasty. Type LXI. =P.200a
2880C (none) (none) B16536 Brick of Dungi. "Dun-gi, mighty hero, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, E-har-sag, his beloved house, has built." H.C.
7134 (none) (none) B16431 Adze head. Bronze. Cf. U.6137 Larsa type. E.
6890 (none) (none) B16423 Miniature bowl. Copper. Smashed. E. [drawing 1:1]
6856 (none) (none) B16374 Tortoise. White frit, and glazed. E. [drawing 1:1]
6897 (none) (none) B16368 Ring. Gold. Complete but severed. E.
6104 (none) (none) B16367 Phallic bead. Drab pebble. E. [drawing 1:1]
6906 (none) (none) B16363 Frog bead. Black steatite. E.
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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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