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)
9659 (none) 1928,1010.322 (none) Copper Dagger Tang perforated to receive rivets
9776A (none) (none) B16742 [A-L] Shell Plaques. Found in confusion and scattered in the soil (the filling of the shaft) 12 plaques with animals, of which 2 are broken. 4 1/2 others completely decayed. 7 white squares each with 5 blue dots. 3 black squares each with 5 white dots. 2 squares with rosettes. 9 pieces (strips) with eye pattern most of these have suffered by the decay of the shell. Also a quantity of narrow edging slips in mother-of-pearl, red stone and lapis.
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
10019A (none) (none) (none) [A-P] Earrings. Gold and Silver. Spirals of wire. [A-D] 4 of gold, [E-P] 12 of silver. There were other silver examples too broken to be kept: all the silver is much corroded. Two of the gold rings were inside silver ones (the latter a good deal broken).
10023 (none) (none) (none) Spear The head is of copper, leaf-shaped with parallel ribbing The upper part of the haft is plated with gold in imitation of jointed bamboo The lower part of the haft was plain wood
10049A (none) (none) B17520.1 Copper spear-heads [struck out: "eleven" and "twelve"] thirteen all of the solid poker type, square in section write chisel-ended clamp No 11 had round it the copper collar from the end of the shaft (broken)
10455 (none) 1928,1010.135 (none) Silver Bucket (?) but with no handles [drawing] Type XXXII
10451 (none) (none) B17692 Gold Lamp bowl with sloped straight sides rising from a ridge foot, with narrow carinated rim: from the rim projects a trough spout. (orig. circular, now bent)
10507 (none) 1928,1010.450 (none) Stone bowl Calcite White Most of surface decayed Broken & mended Part missing [drawing] Type LXVI
10436A (none) (none) B16744A Box (?) Semi-circular The body of [B] silver, the lid of [A] shell and lapis inlay. The lid is of soild shell with inlaid diamond decoration found round the edge and engraved concentric lines on the top: inside this frame is a figure of a lion just after a spring silhouetted against lapis, the engraved lines filled in with red and black. Found on the SE side of the the box.
10766A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Silver Bracelets. (broken) and [C-D] 2 lapis lazuli cylinder seals. The end of one of the bracelets was perforated through the hole in the larger lapis seal. Possibly the smaller seal was attached to the second bracelet in the smae way, but it was actually found loose inside the hemispherical copper bowl above which the bangles were found. (C) Larger seal: rampant gazelles and lion? Male figure with bird head wearing forked diadem. (D) Smaller seal: Tree; 4 standing figures. Star on pole standing upon a triangle.
10168 (none) 1928,1010.252 (none) Cylinder Seal Lapis lazuli Men fighting rampant lions and bulls
10397 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Mottled marble Black with small brownish spots Unusually large size, Very slightly convex. 4 horned deities bearing offerings of (corn?) to an enthroned deity who holds a triple wisp of (corn?) in his right hand. Behind throne a spouting tree on a stand. Seated god has a short pigtail which curls up at back. Standing gods have hair done up in a double bun at the back, they are bearded; wear a long sleeve-less coat tied by a band at the waist. Last deity has a kaukanes flounced skirt like enthroned deity. The latter has a cloak which covers left arm but leaves right arm exposed. Sargonic Grave. [drawing]
11174 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. 2 groups of fighting animals and a small panel with inscription. Inscription: e-zi (d) (cf. U.11107).
10758.1 (none) (none) B16925A [.1-.2] 2 Gold Ear Rings Each a pair consisting of lunate ended rings one big and one small linked together, a pair on each ear [drawing]
9923 (none) 1928,1010.250 (none) Cylinder Seal Black steatite Men fighting bulls and lions
10851 (none) 1928,1010.4 (none) Gold Bowl Oval Plain, with raised oval base and slightly projecting rim: at each end is a strongly marked rib running from base to rim. In the centre of each side, just below the rim, is a double lug made of 3 short vertical gold tubes; through these pass the 2 strands of a loop handle made of a gold wire, square in section, and twisted to give a cable effect.
11456 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black and white breccia. Subject: animals and men fighting. Inscription GUR-na. [drawing] HC..6.
11426 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene, 1 seated and 2 standing figures.
11596 (none) 1929,1017.376 (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Man fighting a lion; a seated goddess. Inscribed: En An-Ki-da ? Lord (priest?) of Heaven and Earth. HC..12.
12354 (none) 1929,1017.2 (none) Harp of silver throughout the sounding-box decorated with a band of blue and white strip inlay and with a cow's head in silver. For measurement drawing see field notes. [Photos 1210-1214 and 1218 show object in situ, 1341 shows restoration]

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