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)
211 (none) (none) B14967 Stone vase. Fr. of. Fine-grained black stone. On the outside, carved in low relief an animal strongly resembling a pig, but with a bushy tail stands on its hind legs (L), one front paw resting on a conventional mountain. The work is rather crude but vigorous. The vase is of unusual form for a stone vase, section more or less, thus [referencing drawing], the foot being made in a separate piece. [drawing]
7649 (none) 1928,1009.500 (none) Stone vase. Calcite. Yellowish and veined. Type XXXIX.
7638 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White. Type LII stone
7645 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Type III.
7654 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White, yellowish veins. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Part of rim missing. Type LVI.
231 (none) 1923,1110.41 (none) Stone vase. 4 fragments (of which 2 fit together) of a straight-sided bowl of dark steatite. On the outside, mythological scenes carved in relief - two-headed monster holding the horns of an ibex: another figure fighting serpentine beast: a lion: scorpions: fish, etc. On the inside, inscription. [Annotated] Drawing only [Annotated] Reg. Ins. 9
232 (none) 1923,1110.17 (none) Stone vase. 3 fragments (2 of which joined together) of limestone bowl. On the outside, carved in relief, a seated goddess with 2 children and a standing god, and 5 figures of adorants. Also an inscription. [annotated] Drawn: see photo.
8239 (none) 1928,1009.420 (none) Stone vase. White limestone. The sides vertically fluted. Type LXXII. Photo 841
8331 (none) 1928,1009.508 (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXXI stone. Photo 840
8387 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXVIII
8380 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 91.
6857 (none) (none) (none) Stone head. Grey. Fragment. Part of hair and upper portion of face down to nose alone remains. Female head with fine wavy air and double chignon. Lose forehead, beaded line running round it just above eyebrows representing fringe of hair which protrudes below the chignon. Eyebrows carefully rendered by feathered line; prominent and strongly defined eyelids with protruding eyeballs. Carefully modelling of face and nose bottom of which is lost. B.
6607 (none) (none) (none) Stone fragment. Pink engraved. Trial piece on conventional subjects. On one side above unfinished seated god, below seated god left hand extended and holding [reference to drawing] shaped object. At feet corn sheaf. On the other side unfinished standing figures. B.
7637 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Type LI.
7647 (none) 1928,1009.517 (none) Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Type X stone.
7648 (none) (none) B17156 Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Half of rim missing. Type LIII.
7840 (none) 1928,1009.421 (none) Stone bowl. Calcite. Inscribed A-gir-gal. Type 39 new. HC.43 [drawing]
7650 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Green. Small portion of rim missing. Type LIV stone.
7651 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Green. Broken and riveted in antiquity. Type VII stone.
8190 (none) (none) B17036 Stone bowl. [drawing] Type XII, but with rounded base. Photo 841
8216 (none) 1928,1009.507 (none) Stone bowl of strongly veined calcite. Type LXXI.
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.
3173 (none) 1927,1003.59 (none) Stele of dUtu-hegal. White limestone. Fragment. Has part of [crescent drawing] and inscription To d(Nannar?), king of ( ), his king, for the life of Utu-hegal the mighty hero, king of Uruk, king of the 4 regions of the world, (x, has) (devoted this?) H.C.
6691 (none) (none) B16682 Stela. Blue grey. Fragment. Above: 3 male fig[ure]s in relief, body full face, head arms and legs in profile, clothed in flounced kaukanes sheep skin coats. Right hands over breast, heads turned to the left but faces are lost. Traces of finely cut hair on back of head of middle figure. Dress typically Sumerian. Below waist consists of 2 tiers of wide flounces, 6 pleats covering front of body. Above waist garment rendered by fine and numerous parallel wavy lines. Below the male figs is a second tier of female figures of which only 2 remain. Primitive inscription above heads. Female figs are in the same attitude as male; head in profile, body full face. Figs badly mutilated and lost below breast. Heads look to left, hands of first female crossed over breast, fingers pointing up to shoulders. Both shoulders covered by garment represented by fine wavy lines as on upper portion of male figs. Hair tucked up in a bunch round right ear and flowing down side. Traces of unsmoothed edges & holes indicate that outline of figs was made by a drill. cf. Stela of the Vultures Pre-Sargonid. Broken inscription: ...ka, he has filled abundantly, the Eanaka, he has replenished. H.C. Linear writing of Ur Nina of Lagash. (Found out of position). E. [A note appears on the back of the catalog card, writing largely illegible]
6352 (none) (none) B16229 Steatite(?) [diorite is struck through] statue of Ningal. Presented by Enannatum son of Ishme-Dagan For his life. Upper part broken. Inscript. on 3 sides of the throne. Ur Texts, Vol. I, No. 103 E. CLW. Enter in catalog, Vol. VII HC.

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