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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8129 | (none) | (none) | B17482 | Pin Copper. Ribbed lapis ball bead head. Broken in 2 pieces. End missing. Head held fast by thin piece of copper passing through the ball bead and bent over the top. | |
| 8149 | (none) | (none) | B17155 | Bowl. Calcite. Veined. Greyish. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Stone type XXI. | |
| 8161 | (none) | (none) | B17454 | Copper bowl. Almost hemispherical, with flat ring base: distorted & one side broken. | |
| 8165 | 87-28-16 | (none) | (none) | Finger ring. Silver. Filigree work, 6 strands of fine silver wire welded together in the hoop. Also, part of a second similar. | |
| 8173 | (none) | (none) | B16686 | Gold diadem. Thin gold: long strip with rounded ends. Thin gold with sewing-holes at each end and in the middle : along the edge very small dots in relief. The whole field is occupied by a scene rendered by impressed outlines, worked from the front onto a mould with incised design. Scene of animals and men. (see separate description). | |
| 8190 | (none) | (none) | B17036 | Stone bowl. [drawing] Type XII, but with rounded base. Photo 841 | |
| 8191 | (none) | (none) | B17194 | Shell. Cut as a ladle: a piece is left across the opening and this is carved into a bird's head, the eye inlaid with lapis. [drawing] | |
 | 8192 | (none) | (none) | B17040 | Cockle shell. Containing green paint. |
| 8193 | (none) | (none) | B17030 | Shell rings A number used as beads [31 under this number in UPM] | |
| 8194 | (none) | (none) | B17038 | Small shells. Pierced and used as beads. [12 under this number in UPM] | |
| 8195 | (none) | (none) | B17039 | Stone vase Miniature White limestone Roughly made, apparently cut down from a larger vase. Rim broken. | |
| 8196 | (none) | (none) | B17158 | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX | |
| 8203 | (none) | (none) | B17037 | Silver ear-ring. Circle made of- 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire. & fragments of a second similar. | |
| 8209A | (none) | (none) | B16832A | [A-B] Ear-rings. Gold. Each made of 2 1/2 spiral turns of gold wire: found one on each side of the skull against the ear. |
| 8212 | (none) | (none) | B16790 | Flower head ornament in silver, lapis and gold. The whole flower is silver, a flat truncated plate of thin metal on a fairly solid stem: on the end of each of the five petals is a ball of lapis capped with gold. Two lapis beads are corroded on to the end of the stem and may belong there (see U.8210). There was certainly a second similar flower on the other side of the head (this one rose from the right ear) but it was all broken up. | |
| 8213 | (none) | (none) | B16830 | Crescent in light colored stone, flat. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8214 | (none) | (none) | B16704 | Silver suspenders. A plain ring of silver wire from which hangs a spacer for 3 strings of beads: they appeared to hang from the head this way up, but two were found corroded together in opposite directions. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8219 | (none) | (none) | B17045 | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX. photo___ | |
| 8221 | (none) | (none) | B17124 | Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXIV. |
| 8222 | (none) | (none) | B17187 | Cockle shells. Five, containing paint. [4 shells under this number in UPM?] |
| 8224.1 | (none) | (none) | B16809 | [.1-.2] Beads. Lapis and carnelian, mixed small types, ball, lentoid and bugle, and a few ribbed ball beads of gold. | |
| 8226A | (none) | (none) | B16730 | [A] Silver pin with plain ball head of lapis capped with gold. The shaft is pierced just below the head: [B] the 7 beads found just by it may have been fixed to the pin by this hole. The beads are catalogued with the pin. See field notes. [Type] V |
| 8230 | 35-1-122 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine of a dog? in dark clay. [drawing] 1:1 | |
| 8231 | (none) | (none) | B17362 | Copper axe. [drawing] | |
| 8232 | (none) | (none) | B17511 | Copper dagger. Long leaf-shaped blade with 3 rivets. [drawing] hand drawn. |
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