The National Museum of Iraq
This museum is located in Baghdad, Iraq. It has about half of the objects from Ur.
The National Museum of Iraq is located in Baghdad and contains relics from the Mesopotamian Civilization. It was closed in 2003 and re-opened in 2015. This museum has about half of the objects from Ur.
Objects: The National Museum of Iraq Export: JSON - XML - CSV
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2569C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked Brick. Stamp of "En-an-na-tum, the beloved pries of Nannar, High priest of Nannar, in Ur, son of Ishme-Dagan, King of Sumer and Akkad" (6 lines). Ishme-Dagan, king of Isin about BC 2100 |
| 6170 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Baked clay boar. B. |
| 7505 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bangle. Carnelian, lapis lazuli, white paste and crystal beads. 4 spacers, 2 of bone pierced 6 times and 2 of lapis lazuli pierced 3 times. 133 beads in all. |
| 7623 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bangle. Silver. Poor condition. Small piece missing. Found with U.7624, 7575, 7567 |
| 1263 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Barrel-shaped bead of baked clay, pierced lengthwise, and inscribed with 11 lines of a text (partly obliterated) relating to the dues of a temple for a 2 months of the year. |
| 421 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Basalt hinge-socket of GIMIL ILISHU. |
| 6424 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Base of alabaster statue. Foot alone remaining. Toes and nails carefully modeled. B. [drawing] |
| 1595 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Base of cone of Ur-Nammu, with remains of inscription fuplicate of U.872. |
| 861 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Base of large clay cone. Two col. inscription, complete, of Kudor-Mabug, dup. of 188. |
| 17731 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead clay. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7918 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Agate. Lentoid. |
| 17711 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Steatite. Scratched pattern. [drawing 1:1] |
| 10779 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 2 banded sard bugles 2 facetted gold double conoids 2 facetted lapis double conoids 4 medium sized lapis oval beads 3 small sized lapis oval beads 3 small sized gold oval beads |
| 10729 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 2 strongs worn round neck Minute lapis balls, lapis diamond, gold balls, (minute) Carnelian barrels (minute) |
| 8040 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 3 carnelian and a number of small lapis |
| 10028 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 6 gold composite (triune) beads lentoid probably strung with small lapis lentoids: but found in confusion. Certainly lapis and gold lentoids (small) were used together and were found mixed up on the left side of the coffin where these spacers were also found. |
| 9244 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 8 lapis double conoids 3 lapis bugles 2 carnelian bugles 2 banded sard bugles 1 gold double conoid |
| 9509 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 8 steatite, dark grey, 4 lentoids and 4 double axe-shaped 1 facetted lentoid-bloodstone? Large and small beads strung alternatively round neck. |
| 10026 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A set of silver ring pendants, much decayed, strung with carnelian bugles and small lapis beads (found in confusion) |
| 8525 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A string composed of 5 carnelian and 4 gold long double conoid beads L. 0052 and one flattened ovoid carnelian: and between these small fluted balls of gold and lapis: see field notes. |
| 9752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Balls of gold-plating over copper, rock crystal rings, 1 lapis lentoid with gold caps, originally bound with a spiral or silver wire, 1 carnelian lentoid (see Field Notes) |
| 9157 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Bone Small rings & balls. |
| 10006 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Double conoids of gold and lapis The larger gold beads are of foil over bitumen, the smaller more solid: the largest are unusually large, both in gold and lapis |
| 9639 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Gold, carnelian, lapis, agate, and silver. In original order( see Field Notes) |
| 9656A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Gold. Large double conoids, small double conoids, tubular beads, barrel beads, fluted ball beads, flattened double conoids, double conoids of spiral wire, circles of spiral wire, 2 elongated double conoids; 4 ring spacers for 3 strings, gold bar spacers (square in section) for 20 strings, 3 gold leaves with spacers for 2 strings. Carnelian. Barrel beads, ball beads, bugles, double conoids, ring beads, 1 worked barrel bead with white pattern, flattened tabloid with gold suspender. Lapis. Large double conoids, small double conoids, fluted ball beads, double conoid with gold suspender for 2 strings. |
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