University of Pennsylvania Museum

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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
8315	(none)	(none)	B17425	Copper knife. Leaf shaped blade with very thin but marked central rib and short tang. Type 3 (new).
8318	(none)	(none)	B17474	Copper chisel with straight sides, flat cutting edge, and triangular butt. [Type] IV.
8320	(none)	(none)	B17306	Stone bowl. White limestone, with nicked rim. (broken) Type IX.
8323A	(none)	(none)	B16831	[A-B] Two pottery crescents. The larger one [B] with incised marks as below [drawing] 1:1
8325	(none)	(none)	B16802	Figurine of bull in lapis lazuli wearing a false beard. [drawing] 1:1 Style of the 1st Dynasty of Ur.
8328	(none)	(none)	B17174	Stone bowl. White limestone with nicked edge. Type XLIII.
8335	(none)	(none)	B16764	Pendant of blue paste (imitation lapis) a flat dish with slight protuberances. Where the 2 holes come. [drawing] 1:1
8345A.1	(none)	(none)	B17189	[A and B] 2 cockle shells. Containing green paint.
8348A	(none)	(none)	B17228	[A-C] Three figurines of animals. Roughly modeled in clay. Best example [A]: [drawing 1:1]
8366	(none)	(none)	B17445	Copper saw. Broad leaf-shaped blade nicked along one edge: solid tang. Broken across and the end of the blade missing altogether.
8399	(none)	(none)	B14980	Stone vase. Pot of white calcite. The rim badly chipped. Type LXXXVII.
8416	(none)	(none)	B16870	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Small piece missing near one end. Inscribed. Slightly concave. Two rampant lions back to back. Each is attacked by a naked bearded and horned hero. Between the 2 lions tails 3 vertical lines with rounded heads standing above a pair of spread wings? - thus [drawing]
8428	(none)	(none)	B17080	Axe head Silver [drawing] Type A3.
8431	(none)	(none)	B17091	Whetstone Perforated at top Facetted [drawing c. 1:1]
8437	(none)	(none)	B17401	Axe head. Copper. Common type - with sharp strengthening ridge at back of shaft. XX.
8446A	(none)	(none)	B16803	178 beads Lapis double conoids, barrel beads and bugle beads Carnelian barrel beads 4 minute gold beads Originally these formed [A-C] 3 necklaces apparently worn round the neck one above the other. The bottom necklace consisted of the larger lapis beads, the necklace above of smaller lapis. The top string of lapis, carnelian and gold. Gold and carnelian were always next to one another, and between each gold and carnelian apparently 2 lapis.
8447	(none)	(none)	B17118	Stone vase Calcite White Stone type LVI
8456	(none)	(none)	B17170	Bowl Limestone Greyish Broken in 2 pieces and mended Stone type XLVI
8466B	(none)	(none)	B17615	[A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8466E	(none)	(none)	B17613	[A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8468	(none)	(none)	B17188	Cockle shell. Traces of dark green paint.
8469	(none)	(none)	B16824	5 beads. 2 ball lapis, 2 double conoid lapis, 1 double conoid carnelian.
8471	(none)	(none)	B17200	Amulet Frit Squatting monkey Originally green - now bleached. [drawing] 1:1
8472	(none)	(none)	B17197	Head of priest. Shaven? and shorn Limestone White. Face entirely lost - ears and back of head alone remain Hole pierced through bottom of neck to admit a pole.
8474	(none)	(none)	B17460	Knife Copper Flat blade, short tang with 3 rivets. [drawing] c. 1:2 [Type] II