Mud bricks were the primary building blocks at Ur. Most were sun-dried but some were intentionally baked to make them more stable. Baked bricks were typically used in building foundations and as facing to important public buildings, but they were also used extensively in some house walls, especially in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period. Those used in public buildings were often stamped with a building dedication and the name of the king, and the bricks that were collected from the field are almost exclusively of this type. A few bricks have other impressions in them, such as dog paw prints or inscribed lines imitating gaming boards.

Bricks were rectangular, square, or plano-convex and their sizes sometimes varied with time period, though direct temporal indicators are not clear simply from brick measurements. For Brick Stamps see Stamps/Sealings under Economic/Administrative. 

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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)
7796 (none) (none) (none) Brick Siniddinam inscription, and marked [drawing of two crescents] = U3115, the only other example?
7815 (none) 1928,1009.525 (none) Brick? Inscription in a writing not yet identified: and scribblings. cf. U.6900. HC.35.
7820 (none) (none) (none) Brick. Kudurmabug - U.2882 but half breadth.
7821 (none) (none) (none) Brick Nabonidus = U2863 but half breadth.
7822 (none) (none) (none) Brick with game board?
7823 (none) (none) (none) Brick not identified about 26 lines.
7824 (none) (none) (none) Brick Sinbalatsuiqbi = U3161 (but l. 2 apparently has za-nam-til-la-su)
7834 (none) (none) (none) (none)
85A (none) (none) B15349 (none)
92A (none) (none) (none) (none)
92B (none) (none) (none) (none)
973 (none) 1935,0113.3 (none) Fragment of mud-brick. With portion of Kudur-Mabug's brick inscription.
974 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of Mud-brick. With portion of Bur-Sin inscription.
975 (none) 1935,0113.4 (none) Fragment of Mud-brick. With portion of Bur-Sin inscription.
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