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)
1599 (none) (none) B15680 Figurine. Light clay: moulded. Female figure in flounced skirt, standing on animal(?) with has broken away. P.
1600 (none) (none) B15685 Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Light clay; moulded. Female figure with 4-fold necklace and hair curled. P.
1601 (none) (none) B15664 Figurine. Green clay; moulded. Broken away above knees downwards. Female figure, nude, with low headdress and curls on shoulders. P.
1606 (none) (none) B15652 Relief. Fragment. Drab clay; moulded. Figure of man (riding?) from waist upwards - the head in profile - and head of horse. P.
1607 (none) (none) B15661 Figurine. Fragment, waist upwards only. Green clay; moulded. Female figure with low headdress, necklace, bracelets and belt.
1611 (none) (none) B15675 Figurine, drab clay; modeled. Grotesque. Bes figure standing upon grotesque animal. P.
1616 (none) (none) B15699 Fragment from back of bedstead, or chair; yellow clay. With moulded relief, 2 birds facing among branches. P.
1617 (none) (none) B15700 Fragment. Back of chair or bedstead. Drab clay, with moulded relief, 2 dogs facing. P.
1622 (none) (none) B15803 Bowl. Fine-grained greenish stone. Type VII.
1625A (none) (none) B15620, B15620, B15620 Three (3) fragments of a black diorite monument, originally in shape of 4-sided pyramid, surmounted by a smaller body of the same shape. Around all sides of the lower pyramid runs a long inscription of New Babylonian date, concerning contracts for the building of a bit apti and the acquisition of the site for it, in the city of Ur. Found on New Babylonian floor level in N. corner between Nabonidus platform and the old wall.
1651 (none) (none) B15696 Clay relief. fragment of, from back of chair (?) Two female figures, facing each other, with emblems between. P.
1658 (none) (none) B15609 Diorite human head Fragment of, life-size. Shewing from top of neck to base of nostrils, rt side of face only, and back across cheek to below ear; mouth complete and chin nearly so. Very fine work of the Gudea type.
1662 (none) (none) B17456 Copper bowl. Fragments.
1674 (none) (none) B15771 Pot. Fine greenish drab clay; wheelmade.Wide-mouthed with small foot. B. Type CXV. (not p)
1678 (none) (none) B15790 Pot. Red clay; wheelmade. B. Type III. =RC.11 (not p)
1688 (none) (none) B15788 Cup or saucer. Red clay; wheelmade. B. Type IX (shallower) (not p)
1693 (none) (none) B15785 Jar. Red clay; wheelmade. B. Type CXIX. =RC.179
1701 (none) (none) B15732 Stone Weight. Black stone. Cigar shaped with 6 incised strokes. Type II
1702 (none) (none) B15812 Bowl. Fine drab clay; wheelmade; with raised decoration imitating metal form; (in fragments)
1706 (none) (none) B15594 Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
1713 (none) (none) B15781 Vase. Drab clay; wheelmade. Broken at rim. Waisted form. [drawing 2:5]
1715 (none) (none) B15717 Frit ornament. Pectoral. Pierced at each end. P. [drawing 1:1]
1718 (none) (none) B15610 Fragment of shaft (top only) of bitumen paste(?); round at top, hexagonally grooved below. [drawing 2:5]
1721 (none) (none) B15631 Figurine. Red clay; moulded. Bearded figure with horned headdress, holding emblems. Found with cylinder seal U.1720. P.
1724 (none) (none) B15645 Standing bearded god. P.

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