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  • U Number : 8192

    Museum Number (UPM B-number) : B17040
    Description (Catalog Card) : Cockle shell. Containing green paint.

  • U Number : 8960A
    Museum Number (BM Registration Number) : 1928,1009.157

    Description (Catalog Card) : Gold earring. A pair. Normal type. [drawing]

  • U Number : 8692

    Museum Number (UPM B-number) : B16959
    Description (Catalog Card) : Whetstone. Brown stone. Circular in section: head pierced for suspension ring.

  • U Number : 15304
    Museum Number (BM Registration Number) : 1930,1213.17

    Description (Catalog Card) : Gold earring. Small, lunate, light: and gold, lapis & carnelian beads small: for order see Field Notes.

  • U Number : 9597B

    Museum Number (UPM B-number) : B16952
    Description (Catalog Card) : [A-B] 2 Cockle shells One containing black paint

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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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