Description (Media Properties): Ur Excavation photo negatives Provisional     
Title: British Museum Photo Negatives     
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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)
978 (none) (none) B15187 Terracotta relief. Broken. Upper part of figure of Astarti? Holding a goose or swan. The background bears a crescent moon and stars.
94 (none) 1923,1110.47 (none) Frgs of alabaster vase. Decorated with winged ram in high relief. [drawing]
918 (none) (none) (none) Small clay cone, base and side slightly damaged. Inscription of Ur-Engur recording his digging of a canal called ID-UN. Placed in IN/No. 4.
915 (none) 1923,1110.97 (none) Clay relief. Goddess seated on a chair: flounced skirt, horned headdress, 2 pegs behind to make it stand up. [drawing]
8721 (none) 1928,1009.24 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Highly polished. 2 rampant lions crossed and on either side a rampant gantelope. Between the antelopes a palm or corn [drawing]
872 (none) (none) (none) Small complete clay cone. Inscription of Ur-Engur, recording the building of a canal. C.f. 169 [presumably U.169]
8714 (none) (none) B17033 Cylinder seal. Crystal. Two registers. Above: Male figure approaching from behind a lion? in front of the lion a fallen gazelle and in front of the gazelle a winged dragon. Below: A winged dragon, and second similar? and a rampant gazelle?
8713 (none) (none) B16862 Cylinder seal Shell, highly polished Geometric design. Triangles, short straight lines running parallel to one another and designs resembling a coiling serpent [drawing of serpent shape]
8699 (none) 1928,1009.17 (none) Cylinder seal. Brown mottled steatite. Winged god in a shrine and two minor gods apparently opening the shrine doors.
8685 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above.
8680 (none) 1928,1009.153 (none) Gold pin The shaft of gold, the head a large ribbed lapis ball capped with gold
8674 (none) (none) (none) Copper pot. Almost straight-sided, but flared to rim, with channel spout much distorted. Type 15.
8668 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. In poor condition.
8666 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli: with gold caps. Subject: Gilgamesh and lion, hero and antelope.
8662 (none) 1928,1009.45 (none) Cylinder seal Pink limestone Decorative design, chevrons and running loops
8643 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers: above, banquet scene with 2 seated figures, 1 attendant, and shrine door. Below, one human figure and fighting animals.
8626 98-9-1 (none) (none) Copper bowl. Type 14.
8615 (none) (none) B16828 Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above: three seated deities(?) with a worshipper in front of each. Below: door: 3 seated and 3 standing figures. Archaic style.
8613C (none) 1928,1009.76 (none) Gold chains etc. [A-B] Two sections of gold chain with crochet links . When found (A) passed through a curled gold earring (C) [drawing] With these, [D] two lapis facetted lentoid beads, 4 carnelian rings, and remains of a large silver-plated bead with horizontal ribbing - the latter wholly decayed.
8584 (none) 1928,1009.36 (none) Cylinder seal. Blue lapis. Two wild goats rampant against a tree: another tree behind.
8568 (none) (none) (none) Gold leaves and flowers from a necklace. 3 leaves thus [drawing] of thin gold with the stalk bent over to make a double spacer for beads, and 4 flower rosettes thus [drawing] with double loops behind for 2 strings which would keep them centred on the necklace: also, one similar flower with no loops behind. (see graves PG 313 and 319)
8567 (none) (none) (none) Gold pendant. Thin flat wire forming a rosette in a ring, with attachment for 2 strings of beads. The piece may belong to the flower and leaf pendants (U.8568) or the square double-spacer gold and lapis beads U.8569. [drawing]
8565 (none) (none) (none) Gold and stone chain. 6 lapis and 4 carnelian beads, the lapis thus [drawing 1:1] and the carnelian thus (flat) [drawing 1:1]. Strung alternately: in the middle of the chain (probably, see field notes) a gold centrepiece [drawing] of cloisonne work inlaid with lapis petals to the rosette and light yellow carnelian between the petals. (2 carnelians missing). The gold pieces had 2 attachment loops of which one is missing.
8564 (none) (none) (none) Gold earring. 1 1/2 coils, spiral, of gold wire thickening to the ends and then pointed. [drawing 1:1]
8561B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Gold chains. Two. Made of crochet links, rather solid and heavy work. The two pieces lay one under the other and may perhaps have been joined originally: (A) was certainly joined up to the beads and whetstone (U.8562, U.8563). See field notes.
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