Architectural Elements

Architectural Elements is a large category that encompases building material such as bricks, elements of buildings such as door/gate sockets and drain pipes, and decorations including wall cones of various sizes and styles. This larger category also includes models of columns, houses, shrines, and tombs. They are constructed from all materials and date to all periods.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
7715	(none)	1928,1009.4	(none)	Brick. Siniddinam, inscription on edge = U.3115 (some variants?), incomplete and without showing the 2 crescents of U.3115. HC.15.
11662	(none)	(none)	(none)	Brick. Sinidinnam RIU=120 111-6, completing 1.5 ibid. cf. whole inscription U.13108. HC 111
17428	(none)	(none)	(none)	Brick. Unbaked clay. Four cowrie shells set in horizontal row along one edge.
7720	(none)	(none)	(none)	Brick. Ur-Nammu = U.3132 (SAK 186 A) but measurements different.
6341B	(none)	(none)	B16554, B16554	Brick: of Sin balatsu iqbi Fragment. Var. of text of U.3161a
6341A	(none)	1927,1003.273	(none)	Brick: of Sin-balatsu-iqbi. Fragment. Variant of text of U.3161. H.C.
7815	(none)	1928,1009.525	(none)	Brick? Inscription in a writing not yet identified: and scribblings. cf. U.6900. HC.35.
2881	(none)	(none)	B16533	Bricks of dDungi. dDungi, mighty hero, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad H.C.
2594	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bricks of Kurigalzu about BC 1400. Text: To Nannar, his king, Kurigalzu the vice-regent of Enlil, the mighty king, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the 4 regions of the world, has built the E (or kisal?) DUB-LAL-MAH, the old house that had decayed, and has restored it in its place. Already published by Rawlinson.
2883	84-26-131	(none)	B16560	Bricks of Nabonidus. House of the priestess. Nabonidus, king of Babylon who adorns E-sag-i-la and Ezida, the E-gig-par, the house of the priestess, which is inside of Ur, for Sin, my lord I built. H.C.
862	(none)	(none)	(none)	Broken base and shaft of large clay cone. On shaft, beginnings of 25 lines. On base, first col nearly complete, 2nd col, 8 lines and parts of lines Kudur-Mabug, duplicate of U188.
2728	(none)	(none)	B16562	Broken brick with graphic plan or game? P.35. In text: 3rd Dynasty Terrace (13) and Fig. [drawing 1:2]
6313	(none)	(none)	(none)	Broken clay cone: Warad-Sin. King of Larsa? 2 Col. 15 lines. Shrine of Ilbaba cf. U.779. B.
1150	(none)	1924,0920.359	(none)	Bronze fragment. Flat, twisted. Perhaps from a door. [drawing: not to scale]
306	(none)	(none)	B15279	Bronze gutter. three-sided, square in section: at one end the sides bent out to a slight shoulder to prevent slipping, at the other end cut down for a spout. When found, encased in wood ash.
16312	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze socket. Container for wooden door threshold or possibly for holding wooden bar for bolting a door? [drawing]
3037	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bur-Sin. Door-socket. Blue stone. Flaking off. To Ningal. Builts Gig-par azag. Duplicate of U.3031. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (8).
11202	(none)	(none)	(none)	Calcite Block. Shaped like a brick.
1591B	(none)	(none)	B15615	Card Missing
18786	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay foundation cone, lower part of. Inscribed on stem only, 12 columns.
6789	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay block. Glazed. Kurigalzu or earlier. E.
10143	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone Dedication to Nina by Gudea new? ll. 1-7 = SAK. p. 114 H l 8 edengur ka-lum: cf. SAK 30 a. 4.3.;32 f. 15; 36 m.1.2 NB variant L 9 ki-ka (-ni), app. corruption of gi-ka-na i-ka: cf. SAK. 32 top 25, 32 f. 17 This cone is bored lengthwise from the flat end to a depth of 6.5cm HC. 5
10108A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone Fragm. unidentified another of same: HC.3.
10109	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone Fragm. unidentified.
10635	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Cone Fragment Not identified H.C. 11