University of Pennsylvania Museum
This museum is located in Philadelphia, PA, US.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is an educational and research institution dedicated to the understanding of cultural diversity and the exploration of the history of humankind. This museum funded half of the Ur excavations, and as such has approximately 1/4 of the objects from Ur.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 170 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Unbaked. Inscribed. [Annotated] Account tablet. Dated. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No 2 |
| 171 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Fr of. Inscribed: [Annotated] Account Tablet. |
| 203 | 52-30-271 | (none) | (none) | Clay tablet. Complete. [Annotated] Contract tablet concerning a deal in corn, of the Persian [crossed out] Kassite period dated to the 4th year of Kash-tili(ash) |
| 384 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Nearly complete. Obverse damaged, Found in TTB 26. See U.381. Dated. |
| 389 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Reverse of. Found in TTB XXVI see U.381 Dated. |
| 390 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Nearly complete. Found TTB XXVI see U381. Dated. Account of quantities of timber. Dated in 40th year of Shulgi. |
| 426 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Top of. Found TTB 9. See U339. Dated. |
| 433 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Nearly complete. from TTB 13. See U433. Dated 9th year of Bur-Sin I. |
| 435A | 52-30-277, 52-30-277 | (none) | (none) | Tablet, nearly complete. Found TTB 25, see u431. Dated. |
| 440 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of large account tablet of Sumerian period. |
| 441 | 52-30-199 | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Accounts on obverse, dated at bottom of 4th col rev (date illegible) Same find as U.339 in TTB9. |
| 454B | 52-30-190 | (none) | (none) | Tablet |
| 534 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Reverse of tablet, Sumerian period. Dated (Date is that in SAKI 235(1). (Uncertain year) |
| 540 | 52-30-159 | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Top right corner broken. Dated. Fragment recording some uncertain transaction which extended "from the year when the E-ginabtum of Nannar was built to the year when Abi-sare became king" i.e. from the 25th yr. of Gungunum to the 1st of Abi-sare, kings of Larsa. [Above] See U.381. |
| 570 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet, right side broken away. Sumerian account. Dated "the year after Shashon was devastated." |
| 593A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Eleven fragments. Mixed in period. See also U.727 - 30. [Below] Placed in Packing Case D. |
| 599 | 52-30-38 | (none) | (none) | Tablet, complete. New Babylonian letter from Shamash-dur to a lady concerning certain birds. |
| 714 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment. Complete. Dated only by month. |
| 715 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment. Complete. Obverse damaged. |
| 719 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Large fragment of large Sumerian account tablet, top left. Date, if any, broken. Placed in Packing Case D. |
| 723B | 55-30-213 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of clay tablet. End signs y lines. Unidentified. |
| 723 | 55(52?)-30-213 | (none) | (none) | [no catalog card from field] |
| 732 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Reverse of tablet, top and left side broken. Dated. Year when Huhnuri was destroyed (7th year of Bur-Sin I) See U.711. |
| 845 | 31-16-908 | (none) | (none) | Clay relief. Fragment, lower part only on a chair, a woman, preserved from the waist downwards, in elaborately flounced skirt. One peg survives behind for propping up the figure. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 951 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Complete. 4 + 4 lines. Dated. 3rd year Gimil-Sin, King of Ur. |
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