16401 | 31-43-342
| Iconography: | Animal/Zoomorphic >> Mammal >> Camel 1 |
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Molded >> Modeled in the Round 2 |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Terracotta Figurine. Camel. The rider has been broken off. Hand modeled, rough. [drawing 1:1]3 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | BC Upper levels, in ruins of House 30/C |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Terracotta4 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | [L.86mm, W.70mm based on 1:1 drawing] |
| U Number: | 16401 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Zoomorphic |
| Season Number: | 09: 1930-1931 |
| Description (Modern): | This is a one humped camel or a two humped camel with a saddle. Defined as camel because of head shape, ears, tail, and the neck. Most of the saddle is broken. Looks like reigns and a bridle on head, the bridle is around the nose, reigns reach over head. Poorly fired reddish clay tempered with sand. Cracks in surface are from low firing and early treatments. U number on object. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired >> Terracotta |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 31-43-342 |
| Measurement (X): | 82 |
| Measurement (Y): | 62 |
| Measurement (Z): | 41 |
| [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 |
| 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) |
- 1 Location
| 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:110 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:110 | (none) |
- 3 Media