Cup
B16226
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | B16226 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Chlorite |
| Description | CBS Register: U.7140a. steatite cup, decorated with 3 scorpions in relief. From a house site at Ur. Partly restored. UE IV, fragment of a bowl of dark steatite having on the outside a row of scorpions carved in low relief. Found above the Larsa houses of EM group, U.7145. published as B16657 [Ur field cards list U.7140 as a terracotta plaque; U.7145 as this bowl] |
| Height | 3.6 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 5.8 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1926 |
| Other Number | U.7145a - Field No SF | P270068 - CDLI Number |
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