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)
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.
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]
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.
12355 30-12-253 (none) (none) Harp of silver throughout. The body is boat shaped and the front upright is supported by a silver statue of a stag 700mm high, its forefeet resting in the crook of a long-stemmed arrow-leafed plant which rises up on each side of the head (this in copper). [All photos depict object in situ except 1339 which shows restoration]
11078 (none) (none) (none) Tablets. [U.11065-U.11099] Wooden box containing many tablets brought in, probably from DLM, after the packing of the other tablets. Not marked. Mostly UR III accounts, probably.
11734 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above mythological beasts; below, a monkey under a tree playing pipes to 2 lions, a bull, a gazelle, and a humn-headed bird.
11973 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometric design.
11987 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene.
12011A (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. (A) Lapis, geometric pattern. (B) White translucent calcite decayed & design gone.
12011B (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. (A) Lapis, geometric pattern. (B) White translucent calcite decayed & design gone.
11981 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. 2 men fighting a lion.
11990 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Greenish white calcite, translucent. [Annotated] Inscription: Kalam-il (DU =?) ra-gab =Kalam-il envoy (or the like). [Annotated] HC..17.
12029 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Brown & black mottled. chipped at one end. Steatite. Presentation scene: bearded deities included bird god with anthropomorphis torso & head, ornithomorphic below waist. Emblems: (Flying?) fish & water? or lightening?
12030 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene including a deity that appears to be drakomorphic above, ichthyomorphic below waist.
12031 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Hero between 2 antelopes & a lion.
11902 (none) (none) (none) Gold Tumbler. Fluted, with pattern at rim and the same(inverted) at base: under the base a rosette thus [Drawing of rosette] [Drawing of pattern at rim]
11513 30-12-550 (none) (none) Gold dagger blade. With guard of hilt & the nails from the hilt. The hilt had been of wood thickly encrusted with gold nails, very minute.
11950 30-12-430 (none) (none) Copper Vase. The body slightly godrooned.[drawing] [Annotated] XLVIII
11649 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Broken (of the 10 lines 5 whole 5 partly broken) Mentions? 3 dedications (ik-ru-ub).
11699 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Receipt of metal (23 yr. of Dungi).
17610 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Pig's head; in shell. [drawing 1:1]

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