Description (Catalog Card): Terracotta relief. Fragment. Legs missing. Draped female figure, the head disproportionately large. [drawing 1:1]3     
Find Context (Catalog Card): BC House C level     
Material (Catalog Card): terracotta     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay4     
Measurement (Catalog Card): [L.120mm, W.70mm based on 1:1 drawing]     
U Number: 16300     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic      
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Description (Modern): Relief plaque of a man? Elaborate hair, incised eyes, hands at waist. Broken below waist. Brown clay. Thumbprint on back. U number on back.      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-43-380     
Measurement (X): 121     
Measurement (Y): 73     
Measurement (Z): 38     
[1] Iconography tagged by Penn Museum research team.
[2] Technique tagged by Penn Museum research team.
[3] Woolley's description
[4] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 16300 | 31-43-380 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
House 30/C Five houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period infringed upon the ruins of the Shulgi Mausoleum and its Amar-Sin annexes. In fact, the houses were built almost directly above its remains and it is curious to think that the large and important mausolea would have faded so completely from memory that houses would be built here 100 - 200 years later. Woolley felt that the Elamite destruction had been severe enough to accomplish this. The southwest wall of the mausolea remained to a height of 2 meters while the northeast wall was substantially ruined and it is this northeastern side that is most heavily built over. Woolley excavated these houses quickly in his effort to uncover the larger Ur III structure and numbered them as one unit, House 30. Later he separated the plans into individual houses, labeled House 30 A-E. All were badly denuded and few finds came from them, though typically there were also graves beneath the floors that are better recorded. These and drainpipes often disturbed parts of the ruined mausolea below., Very little remains of this building. (none)
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Media: 16300 | 31-43-380 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Leon Legrain Note Card Leon Legrain Note Card (none) (none) (none)
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period 1976 Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:9 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:9 (none)
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