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)
6775 (none) 1927,0527.210 (none) PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. Traces of whitewash remain. Bearded male figure. Right arm attached and held parallel with the ground. Close fitting cap.
6774 (none) (none) B16273 PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. Traces of white plaster remain. Bearded male, hands clasped over breast.
6773 (none) (none) (none) PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. Traces of white plaster remain.
6771D (none) (none) B16275B PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian.
6768A (none) (none) B16272A PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures of. Traces of white plaster remain. Human bodies with dog heads, left hand held across chest; right arm bent at elbow and held upright. CBS16271? [Confirmed: 16273] According to UE VIII pl. 34 there is a D, also PCBS 15271.
6768B (none) (none) B16272B PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures of. Traces of white plaster remain. Human bodies with dog heads, left hand held across chest; right arm bent at elbow and held upright. CBS16271? [Confirmed: 16273]
6768C (none) 1927,0527.211 (none) PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures of. Traces of white plaster remain. Human bodies with dog heads, left hand held across chest; right arm bent at elbow and held upright.
6767A (none) (none) (none) PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures of traces of white plaster remain.
6769 (none) (none) B16274 PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figure of. Traces of white plaster remain. Jackal? Poor condition.
6770 (none) 1927,0527.208 (none) PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figure of. Traces of white plaster remain. Jackal?
477 (none) 1923,1110.139 (none) Pair of silver saucers (?) plain shallow concave disks (possibly small cymbals?) Corroded together and onto nos. U.478, U.479, U.483. [drawing]
7904 (none) (none) (none) Paint pot. Ivory. In form of sphinx of Phoenico-Assyrian style: the box is an oblong depression between the wings. Indifferent carving, and the wing in poor condition; half of the face of the sphinx missing. [additional notes on back of catalog card follow:] U.6665, correct Pl. reference in Pl.25. Plate 15. Captions wanted. Pl.23 = add catalogue number. Keep Pl.33 but insert the new weapon types. For Pl.34 (new), use metal objects above and 800m ran [last word illegible] types infers. Change Plate numbers 34 (adr[...]) h3. Plate 36, keep number. Plate 35, adr[...], change number h3. Pl.37 (adr[...]) to become a figure in the text. pp.25. Gold to catalogue U.6456, Legrain's [illegible] No.734.
15207 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
6777A (none) (none) (none) Nob. Steatite and gold rosette. Fragmentary. Burnt. E. [drawing 1:1]
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).
51 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Consisting of agate lunar pendant, 13 gold beads (some decayed), 12 carnelian and 18 lapis beads (including one barrel 0.047 long) = from this beads through the center 13 are restrung in the original order. and 7 gold beads unstrung.
6676 (none) 1927,0527.307 (none) Necklace. Agate and gold beads. 30 in number. Re-strung in original order.
6668 (none) (none) (none) Mirror. Speculum bronze. B.
7906 (none) (none) (none) Mirror handle. Shell. [drawing]
7905 (none) (none) (none) Mirror handle. Ivory. Rounded handle; rectangular tang at top to fit into mirror-socket. [drawing]
6097 (none) 1927,0527.136 (none) Minute bead in shape of man's head. E. [drawing 1:1]
6882 (none) (none) (none) Miniature statuette. Black steatite. Grotesque nude male figure standing on round pedastal. Sagging knees, exaggerated back, and protruding belly, large flat feet: left arm bent at elbow and held close to waist. Right arm, forearm bent upward. Head resembles Puzuzu type, round flat close fitting hat. B. [drawing 1:1]
2511 (none) (none) (none) Mask. Terracotta. Pierced for suspension, grotesque bearded head. [drawing]
206 (none) (none) B14933 Mace-head, Alabaster half of Decorated with rope moulding in relief & inscribed: [Annotated] "To Sin, Rimush king of the world, when he had overthrown Elam and Barahse dedicated this from the Elamite booty" Duplicate of an inscription found at Nippur on a vase. See SAKI p. 162 (c) Vase C. [Annotated] Phil Photo 15 [Annotated] Duplicates - 206 [Crossed out] U.236
207 (none) (none) B14932 Mace-head Alabaster. Complete, except that top moulding is chipped away. Inscribed: [Annotated] Rimush king of Kish.

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