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)
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.
367 (none) (none) B15295 Clay plaque. Fragment. Unbaked. Surface smoothed and bordered with incised straight lines: on surface, lightly incised in the wet clay, a sketch of a bearded human head left with horned (?) headdress. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
368A (none) (none) B14964 [A] Stone mould, broken, for making clay figurines. Scene: a god seated on a stool wearing the seven-horned cap, with left arm and hand stretched out towards a standing figure in a plain robe wearing a single horn: above two crescents. (B) Second fragment; female figure standing upright (Baghdad)
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.
405 (none) (none) B14953 Stone vase-lid. Light steatite. Circular. Knob handle broken: round the top a band of dotted concentric circles.[drawing]
407 (none) (none) B15000 Terracotta figurine. Snowman technique. Upper part of female figure body board-like bird head. [drawing 1:1]
413 (none) (none) B15235 Clay vase. Roughly wheelmade of plain drab clay. Type XVI. Miniature. RC.73=L(?)68a [drawing 1:1]
420 (none) (none) B15324, B15324 Basalt hinge-socket of GIMIL ILISHU.
422 (none) (none) B15323 Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR.
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.
439 (none) (none) B14934 Fragment of alabaster from a vessel or mace head. Inscribed. Duplicate of U.259 [Crossed out] Refers to a looting of Susa c.f. U.259 Placed in IN/No. 1.
440 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of large account tablet of Sumerian period.

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