Architectural Elements
This category includes elements used in constructing or decorating buildings.
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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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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17981 | (none) | 1933,1013.175 | (none) | Cones. Clay. [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 17982 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cones. Clay. [drawing 1:2] |
17983 | (none) | 1933,1013.174 | (none) | Cones. Clay. [drawing 1:2] | |
![]() | 17984 | (none) | 1933,1013.173 | (none) | Cones. Clay. [drawing 1:2] |
![]() | 11608A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cones. Fragmentary PG most of the insc. on stem. Sumuilum=RIU 114; Another PG Most of the insc. on stem; Another PG Part of the insc. on head & stem. 1. 10 mu-un-n(a |
![]() | 11608B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cones. Fragmentary PG most of the insc. on stem. Sumuilum=RIU 114; Another PG Most of the insc. on stem; Another PG Part of the insc. on head & stem. 1. 10 mu-un-n(a |
![]() | 11608C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cones. Fragmentary PG most of the insc. on stem. Sumuilum=RIU 114; Another PG Most of the insc. on stem; Another PG Part of the insc. on head & stem. 1. 10 mu-un-n(a |
16255 | (none) | 1931,1010.297 | (none) | Copper shoe at door-pole. (broken, not complete) cup-shaped, with nails to fix it to the pole end. Found in posistion standing on the brick door-socket in the hinged box. | |
![]() | 6765 | (none) | (none) | B16278 | Cornice. White gypsum. Fragment. Charred by fire. E. [drawing] |
![]() | 3102 | (none) | (none) | (none) | dGimil-Sin Door-socket. Of shrine erected by Lugal ma-gur-ri patesi of Ur. Same inscription: U.2673. |
![]() | 10634 | (none) | 1935,0113.376 | (none) | Diorite ? fragment of Gate-socket! with part of a Semitic inscription. [struck out "(about NeoBab. period)"] =Nabonidus, U.806 H.C.9 |
![]() | 10138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diorite Block Fragment cf. U.10614 HC 4 |
6354 | (none) | (none) | B16564 | Diorite Door Socket of Ur-Nammu to Nin-e-gal. To Ninegal his lady, Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, has built her house. 1 to B. 1 to E. H.C. | |
![]() | 17209 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diorite door-socket. Gimil-sin; the building of the tempe of Annunitum. (SAKI 200, 4(a)). |
![]() | 6742 | (none) | 1928,1009.2 | (none) | Diorite door-socket. To nannar, king of Ur, dEnlilla-mishag, patesi of Niffer (the ? has restored?) E. H.C. |
![]() | 12504 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diorite gate socket. Ur Nammu. Inscription = Brick inscription SAK 186a. HC114. |
![]() | 12503 | 30-12-252 | (none) | (none) | Diorite. Door socket. Kurigalzu. In text: Nannar courtyard. Kassite (21). HC113. |
![]() | 18168 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Door socket. Diorite with inscription of Bur-Sin. |
![]() | 17830 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Door socket. Diorite. With inscription of Ur-Engur. |
![]() | 17831 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Door socket. Diorite. With inscription of Ur-Engur. |
![]() | 18525 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Door socket. Diorite. With inscription of Ur-Engur. |
![]() | 3031 | (none) | 1927,1003.4 | (none) | Door-socket of Bur-Sin. Blue stone. Same inscription U.295 (Photo 24) To Nin-gal, his lady Bur-Sin mighty hero king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world has built her beloved house, Gi(g)-par azag for his life he has dedicated. |
![]() | 3224 | (none) | 1927,1003.1 | (none) | Door-socket of Bur-Sin. Diorite 52 lines inscription. Building of Dub-lal mah for Nannar. Probably duplicate of U.1163 (Photo. Book II p.147) H.C. |
6334 | (none) | (none) | B16565 | Door-socket of Bur-Sin. To Nin-gal. Construction of Gig-par-azag. Same inscription U.295, U.3031 [The following is a note on the back of the catalog card] For catalog of Vol VII. | |
![]() | 2673 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Door-socket of dGimil-dSin, beloved of Enlil, the king whom Enlil has chosen as the delight of his heart, the mighty king, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world, his god, Lugal-ma-gur-gur-ri, the commandment of the fortress, patesi of Ur, his servant has built his beloved temple. (Another example in Berlin VA.3302) |
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