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)
8604	(none)	(none)	B17368	Copper razor(?) Miniature. [drawing 1:1]
8606	(none)	(none)	B17448	Copper pin Bent over at the top and with a lapis ball head Point missing, and stem broken [type] VI
8607	(none)	(none)	B17446	Copper axe. Miniature. [drawing] Type A5 (new).
8609	(none)	(none)	B17369	Copper arrowhead. [drawing 1:1] Type 5 (new)
8612	(none)	(none)	B16775	Gold ribbon. A mass of very thin gold ribbon, wide: originally a single length, now broken into a number of pieces. See field notes.
8614	(none)	(none)	B16829	Beads. 3 Gold squares 33 x 20mm 3 lapis diamonds [drawing] strung together. (v. field notes) and probably joined on to the cylinder seal U.8615.
8615	(none)	(none)	B16828	Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above: three seated deities(?) with a worshipper in front of each. Below: door: 3 seated and 3 standing figures. Archaic style.
8616A	(none)	(none)	B16708	[A-B] Gold earrings. A pair. [drawing 1:1]
8617	(none)	(none)	B16776	Silver hair ornament(?) [drawing]
8618A	(none)	(none)	B16842	[A-C] Gold finger rings. Three, plain circlets of gold wire. 2 of them found inside one of the big earrings U.8616.
8624A	(none)	(none)	B16766	[A-B] Silver earrings. A pair. 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire.
8625	(none)	(none)	B17451	Copper bowl. Oval type. Originally provided with a long handle attached to the rim at the middle of the longer sides: this is missing. It was probably of thin (silver?) wire.
8631A	(none)	(none)	B17541	Copper vessels. [A-D] A set of 4 spouted bowls, one inside the other. Type 11. Over these has been inverted a copper strainer [E] Type _. The last much broken.
8640	(none)	(none)	B17215	Clay figurine. Crudely made of reddish clay, the surface covered with a bright dark hematite wash. A row of small holes denotes the main features, but there is also a minimum of relief modelling. [drawing]
8645	(none)	(none)	B17165	Stone bowl White limestone Triangular shaped spouted bowl Type XCVIII
8649	(none)	(none)	B17389	Copper pin. Circular section, stem pierced and thickening to head: short tang(?) broken off. I.
8650	(none)	(none)	B17015	Copper reticule. With tools (apparently) of silver.
8651	(none)	(none)	B17327	Copper knife. Straight-sided: short tang with 3 rivets. II.
8652	(none)	(none)	B17011	Copper finger ring. Found on the finger bone. Plain circlet of 1 1/2 coils of wire.
8687	(none)	(none)	B16961	Beads. Large lentoids. 2 lapis, 1 gold, 1 carnelian, and a broken carnelian lentoid: with these small carnelian rings strung between the large.
8689A	(none)	(none)	B16956	Gold beads. Double conoids. Originally strung with the lapis beads U.8689B. 36 in all.
8689B	(none)	(none)	B16956	Beads. Lapis lazuli. Double conoids. Strung with the gold beads U.8689A.
8690A	(none)	(none)	B16957	[A] Tweezers and [B] stiletto. Silver. With twisted wire at the top for a ring but this is in both cases missing.
8691A	(none)	(none)	B16958	[A-B] Earrings(?) Silver. A pair. Plain, each 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire. Much corroded and with beads from U.8689B attached to them.
8691B	(none)	(none)	B16958	[A-B] Earrings(?) Silver. A pair. Plain, each 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire. Much corroded and with beads from U.8689B attached to them.