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)
1 (none) (none) (none) Clay Cone. Inscribed.
67B (none) (none) B15239 Clay seals 2. From wheat-sack fastening cords each bearing stamps of oval seals. on (A) pegasus, lion, stag. on (B) lion(?), Bucranium, etc. [Annotated] B and Phil
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
122 (none) (none) (none) Fr. of stone tablet. Fine-grained limestone. Inscribed [drawing] [Annotated] Sumerian accounts of early date? Early
202 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Fragment. Inscription: recording of the building of the canal of Ur. Duplicate of 169 [probably U.169]. Placed in IN/No. 4 [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
294 (none) (none) (none) Gate socket. Inscription of Ur-Engur. Illegible
368A (none) (none) B14964 [A] Stone mould, broken, for making clay figurines. Scene: a god seated on a stool wearing the seven-horned cap, with left arm and hand stretched out towards a standing figure in a plain robe wearing a single horn: above two crescents. (B) Second fragment; female figure standing upright (Baghdad)
370 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Frag. of. Obverse, portion of account tablet drawn up in columns. Placed in IN/No. 2
371 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Complete. Inscription obverse and reverse. Account tablet. Date in the reign of Hammurabi. Placed in IN/No. 2
409 (none) (none) (none) Bronze fibula. Broken. Poor condition. 9th-5th cent BC type. [drawing 1:1]
411 (none) (none) (none) Chalcedony seal. Very roughly engraved with design of two fish. [drawing 1:1]
412 (none) (none) (none) Shell amulet. Human face, full front: rough cut. [drawing 1:1]
518 (none) (none) B15184 Terracotta relief - Complete: greenish pottery. 2 male fig. advancing front. Each has tall feather(?) head-dress, long hair curled over ears, Semitic nose, long beard arranged in 3 rows of short curls and +long straight hair to a point: the right arm by the side, l. across body with in hand the litnus: drapery to knees, crossing legs diagonally. Behind, two legs to make the relief stand upright.
526 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Broken. Enscription of Ur-Engur concerning the canal of Ur. Duplicate of U.169. Placed in IN/No 4
770 (none) (none) (none) Clay statuette. Snowman technique. [drawing]
771 (none) (none) (none) Clay mask. Fragment of, in whitish clay. [drawing 1:1]
810 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of greenish-grey loose-grained stone resembling lava. Flat base, straight sides. Type JN23 new.
811 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of greenish-grey loose-grained stone resembling lava. Sides slightly curved, base flat.
812 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Straight sides, flat base.
813 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of fine-grained date-colored stone, sides slightly curved, base flat.
814 (none) (none) B14980 Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Sides slightly curved, base flat.
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.
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.
819 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fragment of: of Light blue-grey mottled stone, loose grained.
820 (none) (none) B14979 Stone bowl of coarse whitish limestone, almost of marble.
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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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