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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• Clay Seals and Sealings
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• Puabi's Jewelry
• Toys and Gaming
• Weaving and Textiles

Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	599	52-30-38	(none)	(none)	Tablet, complete. New Babylonian letter from Shamash-dur to a lady concerning certain birds.
	611	(none)	(none)	B15198	Clay figurine of a bear. Forepart only. Reddish clay with creamy drab surface. [drawing]
	639	(none)	(none)	B15392	Clay jar. Reddish clay with drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Broken. [below] Type LII. RC.227. [circled] not p.
	645	(none)	(none)	B15191	Terracotta figurine (fr. of) moulded. Seated on a chair, a female figure wearing a dress from neck to ankles + with full sleeves. The bodice treated in narrow pleats, the skirt in 5 flounces of close pleating, border of smocking (?) round neck. Hands clasped in front of body, head missing. The chair +drapery make a solid front: behind project two stumps to make the relief stand up. [drawing]
	646	(none)	(none)	B14996	Terracotta figurine. moulded. fr. of. Complete from waist upwards, female figure, nude, hands clasped below breasts. 2 broad necklaces, hair waved heavily over ears but above covered with linen(?) headdress forming broad band over brow and bow-like loops behind. unusually fine +detailed work.
	655A	(none)	(none)	B14974	Fragment of a bowl with fine white limestone, virtually marble; rather more than 1/2 preserved. Flat base. (below) RC.19L. [drawing]
	656	(none)	(none)	B15196	Terracotta relief of a lion probably only the core, moulded and intended to be covered over with a slip in which the finer detail was rendered. [drawing]
	662	(none)	(none)	B15389	Pot of green ware, complete. On body, mark incised [reference drawing] after baking. [below] Photo. 77.Type LXX = [crossed out] new P. 137. P.91a. [drawing]
	663A	(none)	(none)	B15260	Beads. Carnelian, with a few bugles +other shaped of paste, crystal, + lapis strung up in 2 strings. A Carnelian. B Mixed.
	672E	(none)	(none)	B15261	[underlined] Beads. A large collection, re-strung on such evidence as could be obtained from the burial. See field notes A. Carnelian ball beads, 41 in all. B. Lentoids and carnelian, agate, lapis, hematite + glass paste, 42 in all. C. Small beads, ball, discoid, etc., in carnelian, crystal, lapis, amethystine quartz, black stone + paste. D. Very large lentoid + barrel beads in stone + paste, 1 paste cylinder seal roughly engraved with a man left shooting at a winged griffon. (in regular Deri Huzuh style), a cylinder seal of black steatite sketchily engraved but defaced, another with seated divine figure right and standing adorant left and one column inscription, also very poor work: also shell disk beads: large beads etc... in all 33, shell disks, 167. E. Small carnelian spacers, with small beads of various shapes in glass paste, frit, pebble, stone, etc. F. Mixed lot of beads in stone and paste.
	673B	(none)	(none)	B15287.2	[A-F] 6 bronze anklets. Plain ends.
	673C	(none)	(none)	B15287.3	[A-F] 6 bronze anklets. Plain ends.
	682	(none)	(none)	B15383	Clay cup. Type LIV =P76b [typology]. Grave not P series.
	685	(none)	(none)	B15249	Cylinder seal. Back steatite. Subject: a seated god approached by 2 supplicants: above, the sun: the composition is divided up by a roughly rendered rope(?) pattern which coils above the god and first supplicant and below the second.[drawing]
	687	(none)	(none)	B14997	Terracotta relief. In greenish clay. A kneeling woman (headless) suckling a child.[drawing 1:1]
	695	(none)	(none)	B15259	Beads. Small string of little glass and paste beads, globular, with two or three larger ditto, and 6 miniature Puzuzu heads in green-glazed frit and (1) in lapis paste, the heads 5mm high.
	699	(none)	(none)	B15233	Pot. Covered with greenish white glaze (broken and mended, bits missing) Type 653 =P.93 [drawing 1:1]
	714	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment. Complete. Dated only by month.
	715	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment. Complete. Obverse damaged.
	719	(none)	(none)	(none)	Large fragment of large Sumerian account tablet, top left. Date, if any, broken. Placed in Packing Case D.
	723B	55-30-213	(none)	(none)	Fragment of clay tablet. End signs y lines. Unidentified.
	723	55(52?)-30-213	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	732	(none)	(none)	(none)	Reverse of tablet, top and left side broken. Dated. Year when Huhnuri was destroyed (7th year of Bur-Sin I) See U.711.
	767	(none)	(none)	B15391	Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXVIII, but has a flat bottom. Not P.
	768	(none)	(none)	B15388	Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LXIX, as far as the upper part goes, but it narrows down to the base more rapidly. =P.181

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