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)
2904 (none) 1927,1003.157 (none) Terracotta figurine. Drab: seated female with flounced dress. Horned headdress; two sunflowers and moon overhead. [drawing 1:1]
2802 (none) 1927,1003.174 (none) Terracotta figurine. Drab: female, nude, suckling child. Lower part of legs missing. [drawing 1:1]
6891 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Complete with plaque which is oval shaped at bottom. Nude female wearing necklace, hands clasped below breast. B. [drawing 1:1]
2868 (none) 1927,1003.162 (none) Terracotta figurine. Clothed woman in profile and suckling child. [drawing 1:1]
7001 (none) (none) B16262 Terracotta figurine. Bearded male supporting ram against beard fragmentary below waist. [drawing 1:1]
7060 (none) 1927,0527.233 (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded male in profile holding axe in left hand. Close fitting cap on head. Feet lost. E. [drawing 1:1]
6855 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Bearded male figure carrying monkey on shoulders. Male figure is clothed in long flowing garment and wears a close fitting cap over the head. Twisted cord apparently suspended from monkey's neck and hands down in front of the male figure. A second monkey stands upon its hind legs in front of him. Twisted round man's wrist and in his right hand a staff? Cf. U.6921 same mould may have served for both. Also, U.6940 [drawing 1:1]
2865A (none) 1927,1003.164 (none) Terracotta figurine. Nude Ishtar standing upon lion. Broken in two, much defaced. [drawing 1:1]
2865B (none) 1927,1003.179 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Nude Ishtar standing upon lion. Broken in lion, much defaced. [Drawing 1:1]
7108 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Seated female, grotesque figure, abnormally large hands held against breast, hair done up in thick bunches at side. Heavy necklaces. Pellet eyes. [drawing 1:1]
645 (none) (none) B15191 Terracotta figurine (fr. of) moulded. Seated on a chair, a female figure wearing a dress from neck to ankles + with full sleeves. The bodice treated in narrow pleats, the skirt in 5 flounces of close pleating, border of smocking (?) round neck. Hands clasped in front of body, head missing. The chair +drapery make a solid front: behind project two stumps to make the relief stand up. [drawing]
311 (none) (none) B14991 Terracotta bust. of a god wearing the horned tiara and heavy curls on shoulders. Good bold modelling, moulded and finished by hand. Eemuriana [written in red pencil] [drawing 1:1]
7760 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Literary (Religious?) text. Ending Rim-Sin...
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.
7849 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Blackish. Very archaic account tablet. HC.54.
7746 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Archaic form of tablet. Kassite writing(?) Mentioning Ur ^dNammu(!) King of Ur. HC.70.
15084 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Large round tablet with a few signs only.
539 (none) (none) (none) Tablet, fragment of. With seal impression. See U.537.Drawn by Newton, photo 64.
6746 (none) 1948,0423.5 (none) Tablet [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
222 (none) (none) (none) Tablet of Dark steatite. Complete. Inscription on face with text in 7 registers and on back with one line. [Annotated] Dedication of a temple by Dungi to Min-Sak. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in P.R. [Annotated] Sent to Baghdad.
223 (none) (none) (none) Tablet of dark steatite. Broken across. Inscribed on both flat face and rounded back: on the face 8 1/2 lines of broken text remain, on the back 7 and a small bit. [Annotated] Dedication to Adad by Rim-Sin. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in P.R. [Annotated] Sent to Baghdad.
7794 (none) (none) (none) Tablet Sumerian-Semitic paradigms of verbs Duplicate text included in U7791 HC.55
7803 (none) (none) (none) Tablet Plan for field measurements HC 32
7790 (none) (none) (none) Tablet Large: Hymn to Ninibi
8221 (none) (none) B17124 Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXIV.

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