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)
7522 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Ishtar and attendant. Presentation of worshiper to Nannar. attendant is dwarfish nude? female with thick hair. Attributes: crescent moon, sceptre (with serpent head?) For illustration cf. field note on G. 12. 2100 BC. And pot type XIX
752 (none) 1923,1110.12 (none) Clay cone. 2 col inscription on base, damaged at bottom. Single column on shaft, nearly complete. Rim-Sin. Recording the king's building of a temple called E-eshbar-zida for the god Ninsianna.
743 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of seal impression. Northern type, similar to and part of another impression. Placed in IN/No. 8.
7316 47-29-438 (none) (none) No catalog card exists for this object: U.7289-7381 fell unassigned between seasons 4 and 5. They were later used for tablets found in Season 5 in area SM. They were originally part of U.7839, a large group of tablet fragments that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128).
72 (none) (none) B15192 Clay mask. The eyes are pierced right through and filled with paste, originally blue: there is a hole at the top for suspension. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil
7111 47-29-159 (none) B16266 Terracotta plaque. Fragmentary. Bearded god? Seated on a bull left arm bent at elbow and holding an object right hand held against breast. E. [drawing 1:1]
7109 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta plaque. Male and female, full face standing side by side - probably god and goddess. Both clothed in flounced skirts, female has right shoulder exposed. Male figure is bearded and wears close fitting cap on head, against right shoulder a flail. Female wears the high horned headdress of a goddess and a heavy necklace. Both are standing on a narrow band in relief, which may represent the threshold. E. [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]
7107 (none) (none) B16255 Terracotta Figurine. Naked female, hands clasped against waist. Common type. [drawing 1:1] E
7098 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu. Head of white shell. B. [drawing 1:1]
7097 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Duck. Miniature. Frit. Grey. B.
7095 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta pig. One foot lost. Incised lines on back indicate hair. B. Larsa? cf U7094
7076B (none) (none) B16267 Terracotta figurine. Seated goddess in Kaunakes skirt, and holding a vase from which water pours on either side, against the breast. Long flowing hair falling down breast and done up in a knot over either ear. High horned headdress on either side of head a crescent moon. Behind throne a peacock, tail of which shows behind right hand side of the goddess and head behind left hand side. E. [drawing 1:2]
7075 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta statuette. Fragmentary below waist. Nude female wearing high headdress, crescent moon near top - naked Ishtar, with high horned headdress (mitre with 4 pairs of horns,) sunflower on either side of waist and built at either shoulder and rising from either shoulder sunflower with stalk. B. [drawing 1:1]
7071 (none) 1927,0527.226 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female in Kaunakees dress, right shoulder exposed holding suckling child against breast. Feet of female lost. E. [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]
7034 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Warrior trampling on foe clothed in short coat which only down to the knees. [drawing 1:1]
7027 (none) (none) B16301 Seal. White steatite. Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped. Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani. E. Before 3000 BC.
7021 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed: Gilgamesh and Enkidu attacking rampant lion. One pulls the lion by the tail from behind, the other stabs with the sword in front. Scorpion. Inscription: Lud Nin-shubur. About BC 2100. Text: E-hursag(12). B.
701 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone, nearly complete. Inscription of Ur-Engur concerning building of E-temen-ni-il. See U.201
7001 (none) (none) B16262 Terracotta figurine. Bearded male supporting ram against beard fragmentary below waist. [drawing 1:1]
700 (none) 1935,1110.629 (none) Large clay cone, nearly complete. Base 2 column inscription, top right corner damaged 25 + 25 lines. Repeated on shaft, complete. Arad-Sin. Duplicate of U.19
6999 (none) (none) (none) Tortoise. Miniature. 2 legs missing and broken at back. Black steatite. Criss cross markings.
6996 (none) (none) (none) Cup. Miniature. Limestone? Gray. Shaped like a finger stall. [drawing]
6995 (none) (none) (none) Pendant? For inlay. Shell. U. shaped apex like pointed arch. Slightly convex. Text: E-Hurang(12).

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