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  • U Number : 211

    Museum Number (UPM B-number) : B14967
    Description (Catalog Card) : 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]

  • U Number : 7104B

    Museum Number (UPM B-number) : B16594
    Description (Catalog Card) : [A-C] 3 clay vases. Light drab. Type XVI. 195. =L.

  • U Number : 8030
    Museum Number (BM Registration Number) : 1928,1009.494

    Description (Catalog Card) : White calcite vase Type LXIII

  • U Number : 8520

    Description (Catalog Card) : Stone vase White calcite Type LXXVI

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Ur Online

Ur Online offers an insight into the unique site of Ur, near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, and one of the largest and most important cities of ancient Mesopotamia. Excavations at Ur between 1922 and 1934 by Sir Leonard Woolley, jointly sponsored by the British Museum and the Penn Museum, uncovered Ur’s famous ziggurat complex, densely packed private houses, and the spectacular Royal Graves. Half the finds from Woolley’s excavations are housed in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, with the other half shared equally between the British Museum and the Penn Museum. Through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation, lead underwriter, the Kowalski Family Foundation and the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, Ur Online preserves digitally and invites in-depth exploration of the finds and records from this remarkable site. Learn more about the project.

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