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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7624 | (none) | (none) | B17405 | Bowl. Copper. [drawing 2:5] Where are field notes? | |
| 7641 | (none) | (none) | B16861 | Cylinder seal. Green stone. Slightly concave. Broken in antiquity but remended and complete. Gilgamesh and Enkidu back to back the former fighting a rampant bull the latter fighting a rampant lion. | |
| 7643 | (none) | (none) | B16814 | Necklace. Blue paste beads. Arbitrarily restrung. Bugle and ring beads and 1 axe head spacer. Some of the beads have incised lines running round circumference. | |
| 7648 | (none) | (none) | B17156 | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Half of rim missing. Type LIII. | |
| 7656 | (none) | (none) | B16865 | Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled grey and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion; Enkidu fighting rampant bull; lion and bull back to back. c. 2800BC. | |
| 7658 | (none) | (none) | B16890 | Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star. | |
| 7659 | (none) | (none) | B17240 | Bottle. Glazed. Originally blue. Bleached white. 2 Handles one on either side to receive straps to which the bottle must originally have been attached. On either side of bottle from neck to base a groove 15mm wide and projecting ridge on either side of the groove. Ridge widened at the base to allow the pot to stand upright. Broken and mended. Type 762=P.221 Not in Tab anal. [Tabular Analysis?] | |
 | 7661 | (none) | (none) | B16817 | Necklace. 39 frit beads. |
| 7665 | (none) | (none) | B16763 | Miniature head. Stone. Grey. For inlay, flat back. Large hollow eye sockets. Eyeballs originally inlaid, missing. Only upper half of cheeks and portion of chin represented. Beard of different material probably fitted on to lower portion of face. | |
| 7667 | 30-12-163 | (none) | (none) | Clay vase. Miniature. In form of a nut? with flattened body. Dark greenish drab. Chipped on one side. [drawing 3:4 approx.] Type _ | |
| 7677 | (none) | (none) | B17223 | Terracotta mould for adze head. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 7678 | (none) | (none) | B16818 | Puzuzu. Miniature head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7680 | (none) | (none) | B16893 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated presiding deity. | |
| 7687 | (none) | (none) | B17210 | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Hands clasped below breast. Missing below knees. Hair represented by fine parallel raised bands and flowing down at side onto shoulders. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7694A | (none) | (none) | B17703 | [A-B] 2 gold foil diadems. Perforated at each end. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7711 | (none) | (none) | B17225, B17225 | Clay cone. Ibi-Sin. Fragmentary. Prob = (the fragmentary) U.2576 but contains fuller text. HC.12. | |
| 7719 | (none) | (none) | B17227, B17227 | Clay cone of Rim-Sin to Nergal. Inscribed in dupliate on head and stem. Inscription on stem of U.640 apparently corresponds (acc. to the photograph) to col. 2 of U.7719. = dupl. of 640. HC.19. | |
| 7729 | 52-30-211 | (none) | (none) | Tablet. With figures. cf. 7726. |
| 7753 | 47-29-62, 47-29-62 | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Large fragment of large tablet (4 cent thick) of accounts. |
| 7761 | 52-30-211, 52-30-211 | (none) | (none) | Tablet (fragmentary) [length unknown] |
| 7770 | 52-30-7 | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Contract (excellent condition). dated 2nd year of Cambyses. |
| 7770B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Contract (excellent condition). dated 2nd year of Cambyses. |
| 7770E | 47-29-14 | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Contract (excellent condition). dated 2nd year of Cambyses. |
| 7773 | 47-29-81 | (none) | (none) | Tablet Very small tablet Note of payments of gold Mu Urudu? alam lugal KU-A-G. |
| 7787A | 52-30-121 | (none) | (none) | Tablets 20 business documents; principally contracts (including 4 covered with seal impression, which are unmarked in a box): dated to latter part of Kassite dyn. (13 cent.): cf. (A) ^dsa-gar-rak-ti-Su-ri-ia-as 9: 1262-50 (B) ^dRamman-sum-iddin(SUM)-na l(mu-sag) 1238-33 (C) ^dRamman-sum-nazir 1232-03. (D) ^dRamman-sum-nazir. (therefore dates of QS High level = 1262-1175) |
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