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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2878A | (none) | (none) | B16459 | Brick of Ur-Engur. To Nin azag-nun-na, built her house (shrine). H.C. | |
| 2878B | (none) | (none) | B16529 | Brick of Ur-Engur. To Nin azag-nun-na, built her house (shrine). H.C. | |
 | 3374 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick of Warad-Sin, recording his cutting of the canal called Nannar-hul. |
| 2877 | (none) | (none) | B16482, B16482 | Brick of ^dAdad-apal-i-din-nam. Restoration of Egish-shir-gal. H.C. | |
| 3315A | (none) | (none) | B16473 | Brick Sin-idinnam. 30 lines inscription. Has rebuilt the old In-dub and to nannar the temple of his majesty cf. SAKI. P.210 d) H.C. | |
| 3315B | (none) | (none) | B16474 | Brick Sin-idinnam. 30 lines inscription. Has rebuilt the old In-dub and to nannar the temple of his majesty cf. SAKI. P.210 d) H.C. | |
| 3139 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick stamped of Sinidinnam. Cf. U.3115 with inscription. [drawing] |
| 2894 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick with cross lines of a plan or game. [drawing] |
| 2811 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick with drawing game or plan. Frag. [drawing 1:2] |
| 2812 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick with geometrical drawing. Build squares of 6 x 10. Nabonidus period. In text: Neo-Babylonian Period (14) |
| 15657 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. 13 or more circular holes on the edge. |
| 14431 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Kiln-baked. Triangular, with 2 straight sides at right-angles & a curved side: a shaped brick for rounding off a corner. One face is straight side flat, the other slightly concave. |
| 15656 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Little legible & unidentified. |
| 14452 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Made of Jus mixed with gravel rectangular & flat on top. |
| 14453 | (none) | 1930,1213.307 | (none) | Brick. Made of Jus mixed with gravel. Rectangular & flat on top. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). | |
| 7723 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. En-an-na-tum = U.6743 ? but different measure. |
| 18165 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Fragment of. With stamped design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] |
| 7820 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Kudurmabug - U.2882 but half breadth. |
| 7721 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Lipit-Ishtar = U.3191, 6312, 6328 but measurements different. (Another in pavement of no. 5 Quiet Street Room 4) |
| 7708 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Of a Patesi of Lagash. Fragment. Handwritten. HC.9. |
| 12773 | (none) | 1928,1010.714 | (none) | Brick. Plano-convex. |
| 3317 | (none) | (none) | B16563, B16563 | Brick. Probably Larsa counting board. [drawing] |