Bricks
This category includes rectangular building materials used for walls or floors.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6789 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay block. Glazed. Kurigalzu or earlier. E. |
| 6743E | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-E] Bricks of Enannatum. The usual stamp (U.2569) has a variant 1.2: En-sal-me-nunuz-zid dNannar. the pure zirru priest of Nannar (cf. SAKI. P.206 note [illegible]) One 1/2 to B. 4 wholes to B. |
| 6743D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-E] Bricks of Enannatum. The usual stamp (U.2569) has a variant 1.2: En-sal-me-nunuz-zid dNannar. the pure zirru priest of Nannar (cf. SAKI. P.206 note [illegible]) One 1/2 to B. 4 wholes to B. |
| 6743C | (none) | (none) | B16543C | [A-E] Bricks of Enannatum. The usual stamp (U.2569) has a variant 1.2: En-sal-me-nunuz-zid dNannar. the pure zirru priest of Nannar (cf. SAKI. P.206 note [illegible]) One 1/2 to B. 4 wholes to B. | |
| 6743B | (none) | (none) | B16543B, B16543A | [A-E] Bricks of Enannatum. The usual stamp (U.2569) has a variant 1.2: En-sal-me-nunuz-zid dNannar. the pure zirru priest of Nannar (cf. SAKI. P.206 note [illegible]) One 1/2 to B. 4 wholes to B. | |
| 6743A | (none) | (none) | B16543A | [A-E] Bricks of Enannatum. The usual stamp (U.2569) has a variant 1.2: En-sal-me-nunuz-zid dNannar. the pure zirru priest of Nannar (cf. SAKI. P.206 note [illegible]) One 1/2 to B. 4 wholes to B. |
| 65A | (none) | (none) | B15338 | (none) |
| 6440 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster block. Holes piered in sides. E. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 6328B | (none) | (none) | B16471 | (none) |
| 6328A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 6328 | (none) | (none) | B16471 | Brick of Libit-Ishtar. Same inscription as U.3191 and U. U.312 |
| 6327 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick of En-an-na-tum-ma. Son of Ishme-Dagan. Fragment. Same inscription as U.2817. |
| 6324B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 6324A | (none) | (none) | B16548 | (none) |
| 6324 | (none) | (none) | B16548 | Brick of Sin-idinnam. King of Larsa. New text. To dBabbar (Sun god). H.C. | |
| 6323 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick of Silli-Adad. Fragment. BC 2083 |
| 6312 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 1/2 brick of Libit-Ishtar. King of Isin. Completes the inscription of U.3191. Which is an excerpt from the longer inscription on the clay cones of the same king. Cf. U.4, U.7, U.3109, U.3245, U.3251, U.6129. 4 to B one 1/2 brick x3 whole bricks. H.C. |
| 6272 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Square marble block. Grey. E. |
| 6195 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked brick. Incised line in 3 sides representing the entrances to the shrine on the site of which it was found? Fragment of horns on top of brick and remains of nude female figure represented as standing in doorway? Block(G) [drawing 1:2] |
| 52A | (none) | (none) | B15340 | (none) |
| 3374 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick of Warad-Sin, recording his cutting of the canal called Nannar-hul. |
| 3352 | (none) | (none) | B16480, B16480 | 1/2 brick of Kurigalzu. Type E: Restoration of E-dub-lal-mah. | |
| 3326 | (none) | (none) | B16484, B16484 | Sin-balatsu-iqbi 1/2 brick. Same text as U.3250. Variant 11.6-7: E-ab (sal?)-ban-da the shrine of dSu-zi-an-na he built. Side and face text. H.C. |