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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 234 | (none) | (none) | B15272 | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor. | |
 | 237 | (none) | (none) | B14965 | Alabaster Bull's head. Being the front part of a rectangular trough-shaped vase. The stone is in very bad condition and the head has been put together from fragments. The eyes were inlaid and the ears and horns attached. Fine spirited work. |
| 238 | (none) | (none) | B15227 | Clay stand. 2 fragments of (fitting together), rectangular, decorated with inverted dot-filled triangles. [drawing] [Annotated] Phil. | |
| 239 | (none) | (none) | B14968, B14968 | Steatite vase. Fr of On the outside, a bull carved with the body in low relief, the head projecting in the round: behind, hind quarters of a second bull (there were presumably 4 on this vase). The body of the bull and the field of the vase are decorated with bone inlay, trefoils and dots, the moon, the sun and geometrical figures. Very fine work indeed. Underneath, on the base, remains of one side of a column of inscription. | |
| 242 | (none) | (none) | B15264 | String of beads Light brown glass, sphenoids, rough 100 in all [Annotated] Phil delete | |
| 246 | (none) | (none) | B14939 | Limestone fragment. Inscribed with a dedication by Ur-Engur. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 1 |
| 249 | (none) | (none) | B14940, B14938 | Limestone fragment. Inscribed with a votive inscription probably a duplicate of that on the stone cone of Ur-Engur. Joined to U.270. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No 1. |
| 252 | (none) | (none) | B14943, B14943 | Fragment of alabaster vase. Inscribed. Dedicated by Ur-Engur. Placed in IN/No 1. |
| 256 | (none) | (none) | B14947, B14947 | Stone fragment of vase. Inscribed with a dedication by a priest of Nannar. Copied. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 259 | (none) | (none) | B14935, B14935 | Alabaster fragment of vase. Inscribed with a text mentioning the destruction of ninni-IB [Crossed out] Erin-Ki (i.e. Susa) and the dedication of the vase from the booty. Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 261 | (none) | (none) | B14970 | Fragment of alabaster vessel. Inscription "Votive offering for Nannar." Copied. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 262 | (none) | (none) | B14948, B14948 | Fragment of stone bowl. Dedication to a god by Mu-da-da... Son of Sarrum-... on behalf of Ishme-Dagan. Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 269 | (none) | (none) | B14944, B14944 | Fragment of alabaster jar. Inscribed with the name and titles of Dungi. |
| 270 | (none) | (none) | B14940, B14940 | Stone fragment of dish. Beginning of last two lines of a dedication. Joined to U.249. Placed in IN/No. 1 |
| 271 | (none) | (none) | B14941, B14941 | Fragment of stone dish. Dedication by a priest of Nannar, "thy son" |
| 282 | (none) | (none) | B14951 | Fragment of stone vase. On side, decoration of concentric circles. On base, inscription, "(Na)ram-S(in)" |
| 283 | (none) | (none) | B14952, B14952 | Fragment of stone vase. One side, decoration of concentric circles. On base ends of lines of a column of inscription. |
| 284 | (none) | (none) | B14937, B14937 | Broken mace head. Alabaster. Inscription. Only first line showing, reads "Naram"-(Sin?). Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 287 | (none) | (none) | B14946, B14946 | Alabaster fragment of jar. Inscribed with a dedication to Nin-arag-nun-na (probably Ningal). Placed in IN/No 1. |
| 288 | (none) | (none) | B14945, B14945 | Fragment of Alabaster jar. End of first 3 lines of a dedication to Nannar. Placed in IN/No. 1. |
| 302 | (none) | (none) | B14956 | Steatite box-lid. fr. of; Circular: the top carved with a rosette of which the petals were originally inlaid; two holes are pierced through the lid from side to side for strings. [Drawing 1:1} | |
| 305 | (none) | (none) | B15326 | Limestone relief. Fragment of Showing a wall against which the top of the scaling ladder, and above the feet of a man: part of a siege subject. Found with U. 304 |
| 306 | (none) | (none) | B15279 | Bronze gutter. three-sided, square in section: at one end the sides bent out to a slight shoulder to prevent slipping, at the other end cut down for a spout. When found, encased in wood ash. | |
| 311 | (none) | (none) | B14991 | Terracotta bust. of a god wearing the horned tiara and heavy curls on shoulders. Good bold modelling, moulded and finished by hand. Eemuriana [written in red pencil] [drawing 1:1] | |
| 312 | (none) | (none) | B14999 | Terracotta relief. Fragment of; upper part (from pudenda to top) of nude female figure with hands on hreasts; heavy necklaces; hair in horizontal coils; pudenda much emphasized. Poorly molded. |
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