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)
479 (none) 1923,1110.139 (none) Silver bracelet. Plain silver wire with terminals apparently thus [reference to drawing]. Fastened by corrosion to U.478
480 (none) (none) (none) Bronze bowl. Very thin metal, complete. [drawing] When found, U.473 and U.474 were inside it, lying on their sides and corroded onto it.
483 (none) 1923,1110.139 (none) Five bronze rings (bracelets?) Heads plain or thus [drawing]. Interlocked and corroded together and on to nos U.477, U.478 and U.479
472 (none) 1923,1110.137 (none) Silver vase. Broken on one side, but most of the fragments found. The sides are intentionally indented. Very thin metal in fair condition. [drawing 1:5]
475 (none) 1923,1110.138 (none) Silver pot. Plain cylinder. Photo no. 56
476 (none) 1923,1110.138 (none) Silver pot. Plain cylinder.
481A (none) 1923,1110.138 (none) Bronze bowl. Plain. U.475 and U.476 are lying in this and fastened to it by corrosion.[drawing]
35 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Alabaster, veined. [drawing 1:2]
36 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Alabaster, coarse, broken and mended but imperfect. Coarse-grained stone, stained yellow inside. Type 20 new. [drawing]
37 (none) (none) (none) Axe, bronze. Broken. [drawing 1:2]
38 (none) (none) (none) Shell. Cut to form a drip-spoon or ladle. [drawing]
178 (none) 1923,1110.46 (none) Statuette. Red stone. A winged bull or sphinx (?), couched, the head missing: in the back a small cup-like hollow. FGN drawing. [drawing]
539 (none) (none) (none) Tablet, fragment of. With seal impression. See U.537.Drawn by Newton, photo 64.
210 (none) 1923,1110.43 (none) Stone bowl Fragment. (joined up from 2) of a bowl of fine-grained black stone: on the outside carved in low relief, long-horned oxen: of one the whole body and one horn remaining, head missing: of the other, only a fragment of the hind-quarters: the tail of the second animal is short and curled and it may well be other than an ox.
423 (none) (none) (none) Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR.
39 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. [drawing 1:1]
121 (none) (none) (none) Clay relief. Moulded: much weathered. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Photo 69
129 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Rudely moulded. [drawing 1:1]
608 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Lower part only of flat wide-hipped Astarte figure. [below] Photo 69. [drawing 1:2]
644 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Snow-man technique. Male figure with long beard + pointed tall cap inclined forwards: arms and + missing. [drawing 1:2]
688 (none) 1923,1110.109 (none) Terracotta relief. Upper part only, moulded. Grotesque female figure with elaborate headdress. Hands clasped below breasts. [drawing 1:1]
107 (none) 1923,1110.98 (none) Clay relief. Moulded: seated man and woman, embracing: full flounced Sumerian skirts. [drawing 1:1]
159 (none) 1923,1110.115 (none) Clay figurine of a sow. [drawing]
603 (none) 1923,1110.113 (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment of head of bearded god wearing horned crown: behind, rough, with a hole for affixing it to a background. [drawing 1:1]
219 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Dark green-grey steatite. Fragment. Face flat, inscribed: the central part of the text has been destroyed by hammering. The back is rounded and plain: it also shows hammer marks. [Annotated] Records the name of certain objects dedicated. [Annotated] Sent to Baghdad.

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