Bowl

B14968

Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries

From: Iraq | Ur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B14968
Current Location Middle East Galleries - On Display
Provenience Iraq | Ur
Archaeology Area TTB 19; found under the Kuri-Galzu floor of E-nun-mah
Period Ur III
Date Made ca. 2050 BCE)
Section Near Eastern
Materials Diorite
Technique Inscribed
Inscription Language Sumerian Language
Description

CBS Register: broken diorite bowl decorated with stars and crescents. Inlaid and 4 kneeling bulls-- Bull of Heaven inscription of [Dungi?]

UE IV: Bowl, fragment of black steatite. The outside was surrounded by a row of reclining bulls carved in low relief but with heads projecting virtually in the round. One bull and the hind-quarters of a second remain. The body of the animal and the field are inlaid with trefoils, dots the sun and the moon in white shell; below are the ends of 6 lines of inscriptions which are undecipherable. Very fine work.

Credit Line British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1923
Other Number U.239 - Field No SF | 400 - Cast Number | P461630 - CDLI Number

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