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)
2677 (none) (none) (none) Ivory pyxis. Fragmentary: Egyptian, presumably of earlier date than level where found. Carved in relief with figures of dancing-girls. Fitted with hatched lid on a pin (?). Copper wire (rivets?) let in to sides and twisted outside.
2670 (none) (none) (none) Carved relief. Limestone, with figures of Ea and attendant gods. 3rd Dynasty period.
2674 (none) 1927,1003.60 (none) Door-socket of Sin-balatsu-iqbi (time of Ashurbanapal) shakkanak (vice regent) of Ur son of Ningal-iddinna. Restoration of Elemen-ni-gur. In particular of the gate-way to Esag-dili (the Ziggurat). The gate was built in the middle of the terrace of the temenos, on the procession way (! e hal-la-ta du-a). The door was of boxwood, fixed with bronze pegs in massive walls, had a gold USH, a silverlock, silver plated bronze binding (?). See notes. H.C.
2673 (none) (none) (none) Door-socket of dGimil-dSin, beloved of Enlil, the king whom Enlil has chosen as the delight of his heart, the mighty king, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world, his god, Lugal-ma-gur-gur-ri, the commandment of the fortress, patesi of Ur, his servant has built his beloved temple. (Another example in Berlin VA.3302)
2618 (none) 1927,1003.95 (none) Copper ingot. Well preserved but uninscribed. [drawing 1:2]
2666 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. Finely chipped. [drawing 1:1]
2744 (none) 1927,1003.263 (none) Flint arrowhead. Leafshaped with fine teeth. [drawing 1:1]
2745 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. Blue flint: barbed and finely worked. [drawing 1:1]
2830 (none) (none) (none) Copper arrowhead. Triangular pattern. [drawing 1:1]
2853 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dog. Seated. [drawing 1:1]
2854 (none) (none) (none) Bronze statuette. Standing bearded figure with long hair and bottle in hand. [drawing 1:1]
2867 (none) (none) (none) Bronze dog figurine. Good condition except for tail blistered. [drawing 1:1]
2870 (none) 1927,1003.111 (none) Bronze dagger. Thin metal : half piece pierced for fixing handle in the material good condition, hand broken but all complete [drawing 1:5]
2888 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of inlay. Arogonite, oblong: pierced behind for suspension: honey-colored.
2887 29-174-16 (none) (none) Pottery vase. Drab ware with pointed base and ribbed rim. Lip broken. Type CXLIII.
2869 (none) 1927,1003.172 (none) Clay figurine. Fragment of right lower arm and leg below knees missing. Curiously negroid type of face. [drawing 1:1]
2511 (none) (none) (none) Mask. Terracotta. Pierced for suspension, grotesque bearded head. [drawing]
2514 (none) (none) (none) Figurine. Buff clay. Nude female, mitred and with necklace. Legs missing below the knee. [drawing 1:1]
2515 (none) 1927,1003.156 (none) Figurine. Buff clay. Seated goddess facing left: pleated skirt: right hand raised left hand holding bottle: headdress missing. [drawing 1:1]
2685 33-35-252 (none) (none) Grotesque mask. Drab clay, with pierced eyes. [drawing 1:1]
2792 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta. God and goddess fully dressed: goddess' right arm around the god, and vice versa: dress flounced. Sketch: rough 1:2. [drawing 1:2]
2802 (none) 1927,1003.174 (none) Terracotta figurine. Drab: female, nude, suckling child. Lower part of legs missing. [drawing 1:1]
2868 (none) 1927,1003.162 (none) Terracotta figurine. Clothed woman in profile and suckling child. [drawing 1:1]
3020 (none) 1927,1003.6 (none) Foundation tablet of Warad-Sin. Soapstone. Warad-Sin, the mighty man, who takes care of Ur, king of Larsa, king of Sumer and Akkad son of Kudur-Mabug, adda of Emulbal. In order to enlarge Ur, to enclose its sides, to gain a great name, Nannar my king, has listened unto me. The great wall, raised like a mountain, that might not be undermined, which strikes wonder, I built to him. This wall Nannar fortifies the foundation of the land such is its name... etc Cf. brick in SAKI p.213.B. Same text text on copper tablet U.3021. H.C.
3021 (none) 1927,1003.6 (none) Foundation tablet of Narad-Sin. Copper. Same text on soapstone tablet U.3020.

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