Description (Catalog Card): Stone bowl. Very dark steatite. Decorated on the outside with a procession of 5 bulls standing with the bodies in profile and the head turned outwards: bodies in fairly high relief, heads in the round. Over the back of each animal an ear of barley. Very fine work. A chip out of the (plain) rim and a larger break which has taken off the head of one of the balls = otherwise in perfect condition, straight-sided bowl.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): NNCF. SW. In layer of ashes high up in room.     
Material (Catalog Card): Steatite2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 55mm (uneven), D. of rim 136mm, D. of base 66mm     
U Number: 18118     
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Bowls      
Museum: The National Museum of Iraq      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 10: 1931-1932      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite      
Museum Number (IM Number): IM 11959     
Modern Copies: UPM 32-40-454 Steatite and Plaster     
Measurement (X): 132     
Measurement (X): 136     
Measurement (Y): 55     
Measurement (Y): 66     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Excavation Context: Ur >> NNCF >> Southwest


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