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) |
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823E | (none) | (none) | B14955 | [A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases? | |
830 | (none) | (none) | B15384 | Clay vase. of drab clay, wheelmade spouted (spout broken) Type CIII. Found with stone vases and beads. =Fig. Vol IV [drawing] | |
834B | (none) | (none) | B15238.1 | Clay tripods. (4) For standing pots on in the furnace. A-D | |
834C | (none) | (none) | B15238.2 | Clay tripods. (4) For standing pots on in the furnace. A-D | |
834D | (none) | (none) | B15238.3 | Clay tripods. (4) For standing pots on in the furnace. A-D | |
842 | (none) | (none) | B15197 | Clay vase of drab clay. In form of a grotesque pig with lifted snout. New Babylonian period. | |
845 | 31-16-908 | (none) | (none) | Clay relief. Fragment, lower part only on a chair, a woman, preserved from the waist downwards, in elaborately flounced skirt. One peg survives behind for propping up the figure. [drawing 1:1] | |
859 | (none) | (none) | B14983 | Alabaster pot. A plain cylinder with very slight ridge round base and rim. Restored from fragments, rim chipped and part of one side missing. | |
860 | (none) | (none) | B14984 | Alabaster pot. Cylindrical, carinated sides, flat everted rim. Restored from fragments and about half missing. | |
![]() | 873 | (none) | (none) | B14949, B14949 | Fragment of limestone vessel. Fragmentary inscription, 5 lines, recording a dedication to Ningal by Sin-[ref. drawing]-uballit. [drawing] |
![]() | 880 | (none) | (none) | B14942, B14942 | Stone vase fragment of, in pink-veined alabaster. Section from base to rim complete but only width of 004 of bowl left. Inscribed 3 lines from middle reads: named (of) Sin the son?. |
884A | (none) | (none) | B14969 | Alabaster cup, fragments of, 5 pieces, reduced to 3, of straight-sided cup or tumbler in poor quality white alabaster. Type RC.13 | |
![]() | 887 | (none) | (none) | B14985 | Alabaster Vase fragments of, fitted together (plain) giving complete section. |
894 | (none) | (none) | B15380 | Clay pot. Drab clay. Wheelmade. Type LVII, but squatter. Not p. | |
903 | (none) | (none) | B14973 | Alabaster bowl 3 fragments. In fine pink-veined alabaster. | |
907A | (none) | (none) | B15267 | Beads, (A) string of made up from odd beads collected in the course of the dig. 48 carnelian and agate (B) 23 mixed large stone beads. | |
921 | (none) | (none) | B15394 | Clay Goblet. Drab clay, wheelmade. Half the cup broken. Type LXXVI =P.167 | |
939 | (none) | (none) | B15386 | Glazed pot. Faded green glaze over drab clay. Wheelmade. Type XCII =P.180 | |
950 | (none) | (none) | B15322, B15322 | Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of KURIGALZU. | |
![]() | 951 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Complete. 4 + 4 lines. Dated. 3rd year Gimil-Sin, King of Ur. |
![]() | 960 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Complete tablet, one corner broken, 6 + 5 lines and seal impressions. Two dates 5th year of Bur-Sin I. See U.958. |
977 | (none) | (none) | B14978 | Stone bowl. | |
978 | (none) | (none) | B15187 | Terracotta relief. Broken. Upper part of figure of Astarti? Holding a goose or swan. The background bears a crescent moon and stars. | |
998 | (none) | (none) | B15393 | Clay Vase. Very white paste, probably once glazed, but all surface gone. Cf P.75 [drawing] | |
999 | (none) | (none) | B15199 | Mace head. Limestone frit, 3 fragments of originally glazed; pieces fit together and make of original, decorated with four entwined snakes. Photo wanted [drawing] |
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