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)
1208	(none)	(none)	(none)	Massive brick diorite gate-socket, with 8 lines, inscription of Kurigalzu.
6901D	(none)	1927,0527.251	(none)	Model bricks. Burnt. C and D to E [Expedition, UPM and BM respectively]
12981	(none)	1935,0113.379	(none)	Model clay brick?
3136	(none)	(none)	(none)	Moulded Brick. Fragment. [drawing 1:4]
3137	(none)	(none)	(none)	Moulded brick. [drawing 1:8]
3138	(none)	(none)	(none)	Moulded brick. [drawing 1:8]
3144	(none)	(none)	(none)	Moulded brick. [drawing 1:8]
17652	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mudbrick. Fragment of bearing the stamp of (Warad-Sin?). The rest of the bricks in the wall are 390mm square.
1633	(none)	(none)	(none)	Part of base and stem of baked clay cone of Rim-Sin, king of Larsa, recording his building of a temple to the Moon-god. Duplicate, with small variants, of U.781.
16434	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pillar, white limestone. Coarse-grained stone. Rectangular, and hollowed out on the top in a rough cup. On each side there is at the top a panel from 22 to 27mm high, on which is a very rough carving in relief, flat figures silhouetted against a cut-away ground. On one side there are 2 birds; on each of the others a human figure draped and advancing left. The chipping of the top edge has damaged the carvings.
1166	(none)	(none)	B15616	Portion from the shaft of a large clay cone, with inscription of Warad-Sin, king of Larsa, duplicate of U.641, etc. joined from 4 small fragments. P.
1192	(none)	(none)	(none)	Portion of a shaft of a clay cone, with second column (13 lines) of an inscription of Lipit-Ishtar, king of Isin. Duplicate of U.4, and SAKI, p.204. 3 and clay, Miscellaneous Inscription no. 27. P.
920	(none)	(none)	(none)	Portion of base of large clay cone. Inscription of Kudur-Mabug, duplicate of U.919. Portions of first 4 lines of 1st column and just 15 lines, 2nd column.
1454	(none)	(none)	B15619, B15619	Portion of the base of large clay cone, with inscription in 2 columns. Mostly illegible and authorship uncertain: possibly contains a dedication to Nergal. P.
1206	(none)	(none)	B15612, B15612	Pot sherd, upon the outside of which promiscuous cuneiform signs have been inscribed in an archaic hand, presumably as practice. P.
1367	(none)	(none)	B15322, B15322	Sandstone gate socket of Kurigalzu, with inscription similar to that of U.1208, 9 lines.
13684	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Small fragment. Animal and palm branches?
782	(none)	(none)	(none)	Segment from large clay cone. Inscription of Rim-Sin on base and shaft. Practically illegible. Nothing but fragments of titles preserved.
871A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seventeen (17) [A-Q] complete or fragmentary small cones with Ur-Engur's inscription concerning E-temen-ni-il. Duplicates of U.201.
871I	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seventeen (17) [A-Q] complete or fragmentary small cones with Ur-Engur's inscription concerning E-temen-ni-il. Duplicates of U.201.
871J	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seventeen (17) [A-Q] complete or fragmentary small cones with Ur-Engur's inscription concerning E-temen-ni-il. Duplicates of U.201.
871K	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seventeen (17) [A-Q] complete or fragmentary small cones with Ur-Engur's inscription concerning E-temen-ni-il. Duplicates of U.201.
871L	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seventeen (17) [A-Q] complete or fragmentary small cones with Ur-Engur's inscription concerning E-temen-ni-il. Duplicates of U.201.
871M	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seventeen (17) [A-Q] complete or fragmentary small cones with Ur-Engur's inscription concerning E-temen-ni-il. Duplicates of U.201.
871O	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seventeen (17) [A-Q] complete or fragmentary small cones with Ur-Engur's inscription concerning E-temen-ni-il. Duplicates of U.201.