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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7526B | (none) | (none) | B17432 | [A-F] 6 arrowheads. Iron. Parts of wooden shaft remain. Late Kassite or Assyrian? Found with 2 silver earrings and pot type CXLIX. | |
| 7526D | (none) | (none) | B17433 | [A-F] 6 arrowheads. Iron. Parts of wooden shaft remain. Late Kassite or Assyrian? Found with 2 silver earrings and pot type CXLIX. | |
| 7526E | (none) | (none) | B17431 | [A-F] 6 arrowheads. Iron. Parts of wooden shaft remain. Late Kassite or Assyrian? Found with 2 silver earrings and pot type CXLIX. | |
| 7527 | 30-12-211 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXXII=IL.118 found with type XX, | |
| 7531 | (none) | (none) | B17270 | Clay vase. Greenish drab. Type CCLXXXIII=L | |
| 7535 | 30-12-194 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCLXXXV =L | |
| 7539 | (none) | (none) | B17206 | Terracotta figurine. Enthroned goddess wearing flounced kaunakes dress, high horned headdress, hair hangs below shoulders and ends in a curl. Both hands clasped over waist. High horned headdress rising in tiers. Throne has a straight back to it.. Behind the seat at an angle of 45 degrees to it are two fragmentary legs protruding well behind the plaque os that the plaque could have originally stood vertically, supported by its props on the table. On either side of the headdress horns and from either side of the top cow's ears. [drawing 1:3] | |
 | 7551 | (none) | (none) | B16771 | Pin. Bone. Yellow. Point missing. Incised decoration at head. Hole perforated below decoration. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7552 | (none) | (none) | B16885, B16885 | Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Inscribed. Scene of worship. Shamash standing with left foot on raised step, right foot on ground, left hand raised to greet heavily draped male figure whose left shoulder is bare. Behind a goddess wearing flounced kaunakes skirt with hands upraised, and behind goddess AIA? a warrior with a bent staff carried in right arm. Below the inscription a Simish. Attributes: crescent and moon and Simish. Inscription: ^dBABBAR(^ilSumas): ^dA-A(^ilAia). | |
| 7556 | (none) | (none) | B16886, B16886 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed: practically illegible? Scene of worship: Minor deity introducing worshipper to Nannar before whom stands the crescent moon on a staff. | |
| 7564B | (none) | (none) | B16796 | [A-B] Two necklaces. Carnelian, frit, paste. Found loose in soil and arbitrarily re-strung. Both similar in type. Ribbed frit ring beads predominate. No mention of these beads in field notes (or in written account of site). | |
| 7570 | (none) | (none) | B17209 | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque. Missing below waist. Bearded male figure wearing fringed turbine wound round head in tiers? and supporting vertically against the body two ceremonial litni which rest on either shoulder, curved tops reaching top of head. 2 incisions around each litnus at the top in the straight portion. Nose thick and shapeless. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7579 | 30-12-171 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Miniature. Whitish clay. Originally had a single handle over the top, now missing. This type ammt to in and by hand of the reciews, and a cspout? [very hard to read] Type CCXCIV. Not in RC or L series not on field note (attached) what other please? EM G44 is indicated in the Larsa analysis of graves original type appearing[?] therewith. This seems to be the sole example of the type. | |
| 7583 | (none) | (none) | B16903 | Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail. | |
| 7585 | (none) | (none) | B17268 | Clay vase. Glazed. Blue glaze mostly flaked off. Type CCXLI variant =P.125. Neo-Babylonian. | |
| 7587 | (none) | (none) | B17216 | Owl? Unbaked clay. Oblong block with rounded edges. 2 cavities for eyes sockets and in each cavity a cowry shell to represent eye ball. Nose roughly pinched to form a projecting ridge between the eyes. Cavity in top of head 002 in diam. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 7590 | (none) | (none) | B16762 | Boar? Miniature. Steatite. Black. End missing. Head naturalistic, body peg shaped, flattened base with incisions in form of a + and x. Body divided into 3 distinctive sections, middle section having rounded base. 2 round cavities for eyes. 3 similar cavities on one side of body, 2 on the other and 3 on base. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7600 | (none) | (none) | B17195 | Lion. Limestone. White. Fragment. Broken away behind back of head represented as couched, head resting on forelegs tips of which are missing. Flattened base. Cavity running length-ways down the middle of the body to receive post. Existing portion broken and mended. |
| 7606C | 98-9-61 | (none) | B17376 | [A-C] 3 fish hooks. Copper. 2 complete, 1 fragment. Top of stem missing. | |
| 7613 | 30-12-175 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCCIII = JN. 162 | |
| 7614 | 30-12-177 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Light drab. Type CCCV = JN 120 | |
| 7615 | (none) | (none) | B16894 | Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Figures faint. Scene of worship. Minor deity leads worshipper by the hand towards seated Nannar. Attributes: crescent moon and palm. | |
| 7617 | (none) | (none) | B16877 | Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC | |
| 7618 | (none) | (none) | B16823 | 7 ball beads, 2 lentoid, the rest ring beads. | |
| 7620 | (none) | (none) | B16813 | 41 lapis lazuli beads. 5 bugle beads, 2 barrel beads, 1 double conoid, rest ball beads. |
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