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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11202 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Calcite Block. Shaped like a brick. |
| 2728 | (none) | (none) | B16562 | Broken brick with graphic plan or game? P.35. In text: 3rd Dynasty Terrace (13) and Fig. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 2881 | (none) | (none) | B16533 | Bricks of dDungi. dDungi, mighty hero, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad H.C. |
| 7815 | (none) | 1928,1009.525 | (none) | Brick? Inscription in a writing not yet identified: and scribblings. cf. U.6900. HC.35. |
| 6341A | (none) | 1927,1003.273 | (none) | Brick: of Sin-balatsu-iqbi. Fragment. Variant of text of U.3161. H.C. |
| 6341B | (none) | (none) | B16554, B16554 | Brick: of Sin balatsu iqbi Fragment. Var. of text of U.3161a |
| 7720 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Ur-Nammu = U.3132 (SAK 186 A) but measurements different. |
| 17428 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Unbaked clay. Four cowrie shells set in horizontal row along one edge. |
| 11662 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Sinidinnam RIU=120 111-6, completing 1.5 ibid. cf. whole inscription U.13108. HC 111 |
| 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. |
| 12571 | (none) | 1948,0423.89 | (none) | Brick. Sin-iddinam complete (30 lines) R1U 119. HC 115 |
| 17208 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Sin-batatsu-iqbi; rebuilding of the ziggurat, E-lugal-galga-sisa. (Ur insc. 168. The new example confirms the restorations in LL.3,4, and 8) |
| 3317 | (none) | (none) | B16563, B16563 | Brick. Probably Larsa counting board. [drawing] | |
| 12773 | (none) | 1928,1010.714 | (none) | Brick. Plano-convex. |
| 7708 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Of a Patesi of Lagash. Fragment. Handwritten. HC.9. |
| 7721 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Lipit-Ishtar = U.3191, 6312, 6328 but measurements different. (Another in pavement of no. 5 Quiet Street Room 4) |
| 7820 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Kudurmabug - U.2882 but half breadth. |
| 18165 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Fragment of. With stamped design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] |
| 7723 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. En-an-na-tum = U.6743 ? but different measure. |
| 13108 | 31-16-358 | (none) | (none) | Brick. Contains all the inscription (19? Lines), which is however badly defaced. Apparently completes the fragments RIU 120 and U.11662. (Sin-idinnam) (which are half-bricks). | |
| 7704 | (none) | 1928,1009.3 | (none) | Brick. Bur-Sin. Concerning Ki-en-nu-ga Uri^ki-ma = Watch house of Uri (inscription on edge). HC.6. |
| 7710 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Bur Sin = U.9861 (SAK p.198 d) concerning his statue). Face has part 1. One edge has end of lines of part 1. One edge has beginning of lines of part 2. |
| 14453 | (none) | 1930,1213.307 | (none) | Brick. Made of Jus mixed with gravel. Rectangular & flat on top. |