Description (Media Properties): Ur Albums Photo Provisional     
Title: Provisional Field Photo Album     
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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
6286 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Red. Type LXXIII TEO =RC.129
7906 (none) (none) (none) Mirror handle. Shell. [drawing]
7637 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Type LI.
7316 47-29-438 (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
9315 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Lapis 2 registers: Above, 2 seated and 3 standing figures, and inscription. Below, a table of offerings and 6 people bringing offerings. Very archaic style.
7849 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Blackish. Very archaic account tablet. HC.54.
7760 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Literary (Religious?) text. Ending Rim-Sin...
7923 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. Brownish, and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion. Behind the lion a gazelle which follows Enkidu who fights a rampant bull. Behind the rampant bull a star over a crescent moon. c. 2700BC.
8093 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark fading to yellow. Introduction scene: a seated deity, a minor god, and 2 worshippers.
8085 (none) 1928,1009.18 (none) Cylinder seal of yellowish white quartzite. Two registers: Above, a door(?), then a seated deity & a worshipper, then a worshipper pouring a libation into a tall vase with fronds rising from it, set in front of a seated deity. Below, 2 rams, one on each side of a tree, then a worshipper before a seated deity, then a man catching a rampant antelope. Very archaic style.
7909 (none) 1928,1009.28 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Enthroned god with high horned headdress and kaunakes skirt stretching out wand to bull supporting shrine on his back. On either side of shrine, wings outspread and behind shrine a worshipper carrying a curved staff in his outstretched hands. Hair done up in a knot above shoulders. Bull is probably a symbol of strength and thus supports the shrine, the worshipper is probably represented as about to enter and the god as seated within. [drawing]
8460 (none) 1928,1009.335 (none) Copper staple Shaped like a crotchy [croquet] hoop with end of legs slightly turned up.
8673 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Dark steatite Two registers: above, swans Below, fish?? Poor rough work, approaching to the period of the IIIrd Dynasty
9087A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Silver earrings 1 1/2 coils thickened ends
9050 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Shell White. A seated divinity and 3 standing figures. Poor condition.
9156 (none) (none) (none) Copper bowl With straight sides and out turned end: at present oval, but probably originally circular. [Type] LXIII
9165A (none) (none) (none) Beads Small string of lapis and carnelian, mixed types.
9177 (none) (none) (none) [CARD MISSING] Beads. A few - 4 gold, some lapis, and 2 small bugles of red and white banded agate
9112 (none) (none) (none) Set of shell plaques. 4 are engraved with figures of animals, 2 of bulls, one of a stag, one a gazelle, all with foliage behind: the engraved lines were filled in with color, black for the animals, red for the scenery. The order of the 4 main plaques is certain, one above the other, bull, bull, stag, gazelle: with them were 2 pieces with eye design and the position of these is uncertain: but as a lapis border on the right was pink, the latter was probably the outside and the eye plaques came on the left. With these was found a single piece of mother of pearl border (?) with a circle on it at one end on one side, and at each end on the other. The whole restored as a single piece. Inlay or other incrustation, 3 plaques of shell with engravings of cattle, one above the other, between them and above blue lapis strips, red limestone down the front against the heads of bulls. The engraved line were filled in with black color for animals and red for landscape. [drawing] A 4th, broken, plaque with a gazelle was found, and 2 'eye' pieces.
9659 (none) 1928,1010.322 (none) Copper Dagger Tang perforated to receive rivets
9648 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin Plain tang head Type I
9717 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Shell White. With copper caps, only part of cap remains. Part of seal obliterated. Bearded horned bull standing upright next to horned deity who wears short skirt, and holds him by the tail. Two other deities, one with a flowing beard, the second with a shorter beard and wearing a low rectangular hat, are probably attacking rampant lions and bull; the latter are obliterated.
9693 (none) 1928,1010.238 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis with gold caps. Scene: 2 heroes fighting a lion and a bull.
10006 (none) (none) (none) Beads Double conoids of gold and lapis The larger gold beads are of foil over bitumen, the smaller more solid: the largest are unusually large, both in gold and lapis
10017 (none) (none) (none) Silver Belt Fragments of Found lying round the waist

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