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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)
	6022	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase fragment. White limestone tumbler. Type XIII variant. Ur.
	6029	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of statue. White limestone. One side of bottom of skirt; showing 3 flounces. B. text: 9H(3) [drawing 1:2]
	6052	(none)	(none)	(none)	Plaque. White limestone one side plain ware inscribed (much weathered) Inscription of Anam chief of Warka troops rebuilds walls of the city. Time of Sin-Gamil (SAKI p.222 b). B.
	6071	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone. White bead. [drawing]
	6092	(none)	1927,0527.189	(none)	Cylinder bead. White limestone. Decorated with criss cross incisions.
	6106	(none)	(none)	B16296, B16296	Cylinder seal. White frit. Unpierced. Inscribed: Lugal-nu-zu aon of E-te-nin-ka ilSin. E.
	6253	(none)	(none)	B16290	Cylinder seal. Grey limestone? Unpierced. Gilgamesh fighting with the bull. About BC 2500.
	6273	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone weight? Grey. Type X. E.
	6298	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone (alabaster?) Inscribed. Gilgamesh protecting rampant wild bulls (?) or gazelles from lions. About BC 3000. B.
	6366	(none)	(none)	(none)	Large oolite plate. To Ningal, his lady Ur-Nammu, the mighty man, king of Ur, king of Sumer and Akkad, for his life has presented. Type XXX. B. H.C.
	6417	(none)	1927,0527.36	(none)	Head of male. Limestone. Lost below neck, and back of head missing. White. Shaven and stone probably of priest, well known type rounded cheek, small but pronounced chin, wide nose, deep eye sockets and heavily incised eyebrows. Heavy ears. E. [drawing]
	6463	(none)	1927,0527.60	(none)	Semi-circular bar of white marble. U-shaped = ends flat, near each end a small hole bored through stone on the diameter of the semi-circule - broken in antiquity and riveted. Suggest that this is the loop ornament figured in early sculpture on door jambs or on lances set upright by the sides of doors: the ends might fit into holes in the wooden upright and the small holes would serve for attachment to same by means of copper wires. E. [drawing]
	6470	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone bowl. Jagged edge. White. Type CLIII (stone vase types) =RC.48 [drawing] B.
	6499	(none)	(none)	B16297	Cylinder seal Pink marble or diorite Piece of copper wire mounting inside Four animals. Sheep or goats - two of which are crossed Two scorpions. L 002 diam 0015 About BC 3100. E.
	6529	(none)	(none)	(none)	Flint tool. Fragmentary. Leaf shaped. E.
	6587	(none)	1927,0527.1	(none)	Fragment of Ur Nammu stela. Upper portion of frieze showing portion of crescent, upper part of headdress and 2 more crescents from left to right. Re-used in later period as door-socket. IIIrd Dynasty.
	6607	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone fragment. Pink engraved. Trial piece on conventional subjects. On one side above unfinished seated god, below seated god left hand extended and holding [reference to drawing] shaped object. At feet corn sheaf. On the other side unfinished standing figures. B.
	6612	(none)	(none)	B16665	Alabaster stela. Fragment: broken but complete. Lunar disk. Religious? Scene. Three figures only remain in relief on the left - shaven male figure, right arm extended, upper arm only remains. Lower part of body fragmentary. Figure is apparently in profile. Middle figure head lost: left arm mutilated and lower portion of dress lost: arms and apparently head in profile but body full face. Figure is clothed in flounced kaunakas skirt, 6 tiers of flounces showing. Dress covered upper arm but left forearm exposed. Left hand rests on chest, right arm held upright and hand lost. Behind, a clean shaven bald-headed male figure, 3/4 face, left arm held below breast; right arm bent at elbow and held upright carrying an object which may be a torch. Left hand holds a sword which runs diagonally across left side. Figure is apparently draped in a thin waist cloth, mutilated below waist. Typical Sumerian head. At back fragment of an inscription.
	6691	(none)	(none)	B16682	Stela. Blue grey. Fragment. Above: 3 male fig[ure]s in relief, body full face, head arms and legs in profile, clothed in flounced kaukanes sheep skin coats. Right hands over breast, heads turned to the left but faces are lost. Traces of finely cut hair on back of head of middle figure. Dress typically Sumerian. Below waist consists of 2 tiers of wide flounces, 6 pleats covering front of body. Above waist garment rendered by fine and numerous parallel wavy lines. Below the male figs is a second tier of female figures of which only 2 remain. Primitive inscription above heads. Female figs are in the same attitude as male; head in profile, body full face. Figs badly mutilated and lost below breast. Heads look to left, hands of first female crossed over breast, fingers pointing up to shoulders. Both shoulders covered by garment represented by fine wavy lines as on upper portion of male figs. Hair tucked up in a bunch round right ear and flowing down side. Traces of unsmoothed edges & holes indicate that outline of figs was made by a drill. cf. Stela of the Vultures Pre-Sargonid. Broken inscription: ...ka, he has filled abundantly, the Eanaka, he has replenished. H.C. Linear writing of Ur Nina of Lagash. (Found out of position). E. [A note appears on the back of the catalog card, writing largely illegible]
	6703	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inscribed (d?)En-men-an-na. =Lord of the heavenly crown Pr. Name or name of Nannar? H.C. B.
	6742	(none)	1928,1009.2	(none)	Diorite door-socket. To nannar, king of Ur, dEnlilla-mishag, patesi of Niffer (the ? has restored?) E. H.C.
	6785	(none)	(none)	B16519	Eye socket. Limestone. Grey. E. [drawing]
	6806	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Limestone? Grey. Geometrical and floral decoration. Decorated with heavily incised concentric circles and petals. E. [drawing]
	6831	(none)	1927,0527.34	(none)	Plaque. White limestone. 2 registers. Square hole perforated through middle. Religious scene. Above, King enthroned, draped in flowing garment, plain, holding vase to breast, cup-bearer pouring libation over altar and 3 sons? Of king. Below cup-bearer pouring libation over altar, and 3 figures two of whom carry lambs to sacrifice. Before 3000 BC. E.
	6842	(none)	1927,0527.183	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. White. 2 rampant lions - one side re-cut. E.

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