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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6274 | (none) | (none) | B16419 | Bronze ring. [drawing] | |
| 1399 | (none) | (none) | B15757 | Bronze spatula. Like U.1398. With beads adhering. P. | |
| 19079 | 35-1-430 | (none) | (none) | Bronze spearhead. Type _. | |
| 482 | (none) | (none) | B15290 | Bronze [crossed out] Silver bowl. Much corroded and one side broken.[drawing] | |
| 8035 | (none) | (none) | B17096 | Brown whetstone. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8269 | (none) | (none) | B16685 | Bull pendant. Gold. Reclining bull. Body in profile - bearded head turned to the left originally there were 4 small gold beads tied to right side of body for attachment to a chain; only two of these now remain. | |
 | 6926 | (none) | (none) | B16350 | Bull pendant. Mottled greenish marble. Flat base. E. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6478 | (none) | (none) | B16349 | Bull pendant. White shell, resting on flat base, one side only shaped, other side flat. Body in profile, head full face. See photograph 555 [unclear if this is photo or reference]. E. [drawing] | |
| 9358 | (none) | (none) | B16966 | Butt end of arrow (?) Copper. | |
| 16397 | 31-43-74 | (none) | (none) | Button seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Bleached white. Stamped with scorpion. Dome-shaped bulbous dome stamped with 4 concentric circles. [drawing] |
| 17341 | 31-43-76 | (none) | (none) | Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension. |
| 1044 | (none) | (none) | B15271 | Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing] | |
| 9724 | (none) | (none) | B17136 | Calcite bowl Translucent Type XVIII | |
| 10746 | (none) | (none) | B16919, B17087 | Calcite Lamp Translucent. White Decorated with a man-headed couchant bull in relief. Head horned and bearded. Beard, mane, and all hairy portions of body painted black. Much of paint remains and has been preserved. | |
| 18340 | 33-35-162 | (none) | (none) | Calf's head in dark steatite. The neck pierced horizontally for attachment The eyes hollowed for inlay and a hole for inlay in the forehead. Good archaic work. | |
| 1591B | (none) | (none) | B15615 | Card Missing |
| 16684 | 31-43-155 | (none) | (none) | Carnelian and frit beads. [card shows only profile drawing of a vase] | |
| 10356 | (none) | (none) | B17666 | Carnelian beads 2 strings of small barrel beads | |
| 775 | (none) | (none) | B15248 | Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century. | |
| 498 | (none) | (none) | B15257 | Carnelian head of Puzu. Looking very sick. | |
| 19234 | 35-1-85 | (none) | (none) | Carnelian rings. | |
| 499 | (none) | (none) | B16199 | Carnelian seal-stone, shaped as U.486. Subject, couchant sphinx. Strung up on U.500 E [drawing] |
| 6908 | (none) | (none) | B16280 | Carved diorite. Blue. Fragment. Part of statue of human being or possibly ram. Fine parallel wavy lines may represent pleated garment of a human being and ram's skin. But undulating surface and series of ridges make it more probably that it was part of a statue of a man or woman: possibly the hair from a large head. B. |
| 14968 | 31-16-474 | (none) | (none) | Celt. Polished. Coarse black stone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13503 | 31-16-477 | (none) | (none) | Celt. Baked clay. Carbonised. Slightly convex sides. [drawing 1:1] |
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