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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 3316 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick - Time of Sin-balatsu-iqbi. With counting board of 6 by 10 squares. In text: neo-Babylonian period (6) in Cat.[drawing] |
| 3374 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick of Warad-Sin, recording his cutting of the canal called Nannar-hul. |
| 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] |
| 6272 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Square marble block. Grey. E. |
| 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. |
| 6323 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick of Silli-Adad. Fragment. BC 2083 |
| 6327 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick of En-an-na-tum-ma. Son of Ishme-Dagan. Fragment. Same inscription as U.2817. |
| 6341A | (none) | 1927,1003.273 | (none) | Brick: of Sin-balatsu-iqbi. Fragment. Variant of text of U.3161. H.C. |
| 6440 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster block. Holes piered in sides. E. [drawing] |
| 6789 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay block. Glazed. Kurigalzu or earlier. E. |
| 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. |
| 7708 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Of a Patesi of Lagash. Fragment. Handwritten. HC.9. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 7720 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Ur-Nammu = U.3132 (SAK 186 A) but measurements different. |
| 7721 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. Lipit-Ishtar = U.3191, 6312, 6328 but measurements different. (Another in pavement of no. 5 Quiet Street Room 4) |
| 7723 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick. En-an-na-tum = U.6743 ? but different measure. |
| 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) |
| 10138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diorite Block Fragment cf. U.10614 HC 4 |