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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
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]