British Museum

Museum in London, UK. Co-sponsor of the expedition to Ur.

Museum founded in 1753 in London, UK, the first national public museum in the world. Opened to the public in 1759. Entry was free and given to ‘all studious and curious Persons’. The collections represent cultures from around the world. A pioneer of Mesopotamian archaeology. The museum is a public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.  http://www.britishmuseum.org/

 

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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)
591 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of clay with two seal impressions. The upper shows a kneeling figure striking a standing opponent, behind another kneeling figure with a bow and a standing figure in the background. The impression below has the head and headdress of one figure and the headdress of another, ordinary Sumerian type.
593B (none) (none) (none) Eleven fragments. Mixed in period. See also U.727 - 30. Placed in Packing Case D.
594 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. 3 line inscription and suppliant figure from introduction scene, also traces signs. Probably jar-sealing.
595 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Shows lower portion of divine figure seated on a stool and a standing figure in front.
596 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of reverse of Sumerian account tablet. [Below] Placed in Packing Case D.
603 (none) 1923,1110.113 (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment of head of bearded god wearing horned crown: behind, rough, with a hole for affixing it to a background. [drawing 1:1]
623 (none) 1923,1110.76 (none) Clay pot. Red clay with drab engobbage. Wheelmade. Broken. [below] Type XXIX. Not p.
634 (none) 1923,1110.73 (none) Clay jar. Green clay, wheelmade. Type LII = RC.220 [circled] not p.
636 (none) 1923,1110.77 (none) Clay tumbler. Red clay with drab engobbage. Wheel made. [below] Type LIV. =L
640 (none) 1923,1110.8 (none) Large clay cone. On base, 2 column inscription, 2nd column nearly all broken away. 1st col. 14 lines. On shaft, single column 28 lines. Inscription of Rim-Sin of Larsa. Recording his building of a temple? Called E-erim-kud-kud, for his own life and for that of his father Kudur-Mabug. The temple was dedicated to the war-god Nergal, to whom the king prays for success in battle.
641 (none) 1923,1110.5 (none) Large clay cone. On base 2 column inscription, slightly damaged left top+bottom corners. 25 + 24 lines. On shaft: beginnings of 25 lines. Inscription of Arad-Sin. Recording his building of a temple to the goddess Onanna, called E-dilmun[na, on behalf of his own life. Inscription duplicate of [underlined]Clay.Miscell.Inscription no. 31. 113914 (Hall's coll.) is fragment of another duplicate.
642 (none) 1923,1110.6 (none) Large clay cone. On base 2 col inscription, damaged top right and bottom right corners, 17+19 lines. On shafts, parts of 2 column inscription. Inscription of R-Sin of Larsa.
652 (none) 1923,1110.35 (none) Stone vase, fragment of. Black steatite vase. Inscribed. Probably a votive dedication for the life of Dungi. Placed in IN/No. 1.
654 (none) 1923,1110.178 (none) Beads. String of (inserted) 128 small carnelian rings, 38 white pebble bugles + 12 small lapis beads, strung together. [below] Found with stone bowls +posts of No.'s U.810 sq.
669 (none) 1923,1110.68 (none) Clay jar. Drab clay, wheelmade. [below] Type LVII. [circled] Not p.
672B (none) 1923,1110.177 (none) [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.
678 (none) 1923,1110.93 (none) Incense bowl(?) Fragment. Clay. Shallow bowl: below, in relief, the fingers of a human hand, moulded and finished off with a tool. Compare the N.Syrian steatite examples.
686 (none) 1923,1110.189 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A seated god: before him an altar behind which a standing god introducing an adorant: behind, the remains of 2 columns of inscription. Work poor and inscription very scratchy.[drawing]
688 (none) 1923,1110.109 (none) Terracotta relief. Upper part only, moulded. Grotesque female figure with elaborate headdress. Hands clasped below breasts. [drawing 1:1]
692 (none) 1923,1110.75 (none) Clay pot. Spouted. Whitish-drab surface. Type LXXII=P234
697 (none) 1923,1110.142 (none) Bronze situla. [drawing]
700 (none) 1935,1110.629 (none) Large clay cone, nearly complete. Base 2 column inscription, top right corner damaged 25 + 25 lines. Repeated on shaft, complete. Arad-Sin. Duplicate of U.19
707 (none) (none) (none) Small fragments of tablets. Dated. See. U.387.
710 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of tablet. Placed in Packing Case D
713 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of tablet. Placed in Packing Case D

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