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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 772 | (none) | 1923,1110.121 | (none) | Clay model of animal intestines? Roughly made out of crumbly and lightly baked creamish clay. [drawing] | |
| 773 | (none) | 1923,1110.120 | (none) | Clay model of animal intestines? of powdery poorly baked clay; afterwards accidentally burnt and damaged. Like U but in worse condition. | |
| 777 | (none) | 1923,1110.112 | (none) | Terracotta mask fr. of. in pinkish-drab clay. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 779 | (none) | 1923,1110.9 | (none) | Clay Cone, base of larger. Inscription of Arad-Sin. Recording the king's building of a temple to the war-god Ilbaba, in gratitude for victory over his enemies. |
| 780 | (none) | 1923,1110.7 | (none) | Large clay cone. Inscription of Rim [written above; Arab is scratched out] -Sin, dedication to Tammus. Recording the king's building of a temple called Ka'-li-sud for Tammuz, the rustic god, and praying that he may prosper and increase the flocks and herds. |
| 781 | (none) | 1923,1110.10 | (none) | Large clay cone, shaft broken. Inscription of [three words crossed out] Rim-Sin. Dedicated to Nannar. Commemorating the king's building of edifice [written above crossed out word 'temple'] called E-ginabtum (some sort of storehouse, cf. P.A.XV. P.18.n10) to the god, and containing laudatory epithets applied to the moon. |
| 783 | (none) | 1923,1110.13 | (none) | Fragment from shaft of large clay cone. Parts of 2 col inscription, of [Arad-Sin crossed out] Rim-Sin, dedication to Enlil (?) Inscr. contains substance of the date formula for 15th. year of Rim-Sin. |
| 787 | (none) | 1923,1110.48 | (none) | Human head. Limestone = fragment of = for inlay, or for a figure carved in another material. Hollow behind, the eyes were inlaid. [The following does not refer to an animal, but is likely an abbreviation for catalog. No further context.] Cat. [drawing 1:1] |
| 791 | (none) | 1923,1110.144 | (none) | Glass bowl. Fragment of in heavy molded glass in opaque white and yellow on translucent pale green. Section [referencing drawing]. [drawing 1:1] |
| 794 | (none) | 1923,1110.74 | (none) | Clay pot of creamy white clay finely finished. Flat base. Same type as U.793. Type LXXXIII =P.135 | |
| 801 | (none) | 1923,1110.172 | (none) | Bronze fibula. Pin missing. Regular Persian period type. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 802 | (none) | 1923,1110.81 | (none) | Clay bowl (broken) of egg-shell ware in fine light red clay. Hemispherical, round bottomed. Type XCV. =new type 3.a | |
| 806 | (none) | 1923,1110.2 | (none) | Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone. |
| 807 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Complete. Obverse. Seal impress. | |
| 809 | (none) | 1923,1110.107 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Moulded Woman suckling a child. In whitish drab clay. Poor work, proportions bad: surface weathered. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 816 | (none) | 1923,1110.66 | (none) | Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Almost straight sides, flat base. Broken but complete. |
| 818 | (none) | 1923,1110.62 | (none) | Stone bowl of grey fine-grained slatey stone. Broken, but virtually complete. Sides straight, base flat. |
| 822 | (none) | 1923,1110.61 | (none) | Stone bowl of coarse grey limestone, chip out of rim. |
| 823D | (none) | 1923,1110.67 | (none) | [A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases? |
| 838 | (none) | 1923,1110.1 | (none) | Basalt hinge-stone. In bad condition. Inscribed with the name of GIMILSIN. |
| 858 | (none) | 1923,1110.55 | (none) | Alabaster pot. Cylindrical, with out-turned flat rim a hole in one side, and most of rim missing. Restored from fragments. [drawing] |
| 874 | (none) | 1923,1110.39 | (none) | Fragment of Diorite vessel. Ends of 4 lines of a longer inscription. Unintelligible. |
| 875 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of Sumerian contract. Placed in IN/No 2. | |
| 881 | (none) | 1923,1110.25 | (none) | Alabaster vase fragment of slightly carinated cylindrical jar in white-veined mackeral alabaster. Inscribed: portions of 2 lines. Probably a dedication to 'Nin'-(gal?) by... [king] 'of Ur' Type RC.5 |
| 883 | (none) | 1923,1110.56 | (none) | Alabaster vase fragment (about 1/3) of, giving complete section, of carinated cylindrical jar with plain everted rim in pink-veined mackeral alabaster. |
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