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)
9942 (none) (none) B17001 Gold earring. Coil, fairly thick, with lunate ends.
9951 32-40-221 (none) (none) Copper Toilet Set Stiletto and Tweezers
9952A (none) (none) B17357 [A-B] Copper Razors a pair corroded together as usual Type XVI
9952B (none) (none) B17357 [A-B] Copper Razors a pair corroded together as usual Type XVI
9962 (none) (none) B17075 Silver Pin The shaft bent, & pierced Lapis ball head Type VI
9963B (none) (none) B17333 [A-D] Copper spear butts (?) (4) The lower part is solid and seems to be cast: the upper part was made hollow and open down one side: the wooden shaft was inserted, the open sides brought together over it, so as to overlap and then secured by copper nails driven through the wood. [drawing]
9963C (none) (none) B17335 [A-D] Copper spear butts (?) (4) The lower part is solid and seems to be cast: the upper part was made hollow and open down one side: the wooden shaft was inserted, the open sides brought together over it, so as to overlap and then secured by copper nails driven through the wood. [drawing]
9964 (none) (none) B16996 Copper pin. Bent shaft, lapis head. Type VI.
9976 (none) (none) B16858 Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1
9977A.1 (none) (none) B16777A [A.1-.2] Gold earrings. Very large double lunate pendants of thin metal. (bent a good deal out of shape). [drawing]
9977A.2 (none) (none) B16777B [A.1-.2] Gold earrings. Very large double lunate pendants of thin metal. (bent a good deal out of shape). [drawing]
9979 (none) (none) B16705 Wreath of 14 gold mulberry leaves strung with small lapis bugles and carnelian rings. Original order.
998 (none) (none) B15393 Clay Vase. Very white paste, probably once glazed, but all surface gone. Cf P.75 [drawing]
9980A (none) (none) B16786 [A-C] Silver earrings Plain spiral coils of silver wire
9980B (none) (none) B16786 [A-C] Silver earrings. Plain spiral coils of silver wire.
9980C (none) (none) B16786 [A-C] Silver earrings. Plain spiral coils of silver wire.
9982 (none) (none) B16785 Silver Pin With fluted lapis ball head Type V
9984 (none) (none) B17681 Silver Pin With lapis ball head (shaft broken) Type V
9985 (none) (none) B17642 Beads double conoids of gold and lapis small Strung in groups of 4 or 8, in alternate colors
999 (none) (none) B15199 Mace head. Limestone frit, 3 fragments of originally glazed; pieces fit together and make of original, decorated with four entwined snakes. Photo wanted [drawing]
none (none) (none) B17211 (none)
not assigned (none) (none) B16981 No catalog card exists for this object. It and two other hematite weights are, however, mentioned on the card for U.7073 as having been found together in grave DP.12.
U8125 (none) (none) B17415 Axe. Copper. Heavy type. [drawing] [type] XIX

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