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Artifact

Period

2 Uruk V (ca. 3500-3350 BC)

5 Uruk IV (ca. 3350-3200 BC)

296 Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)

Material

3 bone

1 bone > ivory

7 bone > shell

17 clay

1 clay > ceramic

3 faience

10 frit

3 no value

167 stone

1 stone > metamorphic rock > lapis lazuli

37 stone > metamorphic rock > marble

7 stone > metamorphic rock > steatite

2 stone > mineral > aragonite

4 stone > mineral > calcite

2 stone > mineral > chalcedony

3 stone > mineral > chlorite

4 stone > mineral > gypsum

2 stone > mineral > jasper

2 stone > mineral > rock crystal

1 stone > mineral > serpentine

2 stone > mineral > talc

23 stone > sedimentary rock > limestone

1 stone > sedimentary rock > sandstone

Artifact type

1 Vessel > trough

286 seal (not impression) > Cylinder seal

1 sealing

14 tablet or envelope > tablet

1 tag

Provenience

1 Alalakh (mod. Tell Açana/Atshana)

1 Ašnakkum (mod. Chagar Bazar)

1 Gasur/Nuzi (mod. Yorgan Tepe)

2 Kalhu (mod. Nimrud/ Tawfiqiyah)

1 Karkemish (mod. Djerabis)

18 Nagar (mod. Tell Brak)

6 Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)

1 Susa (mod. Shush)

33 Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)

11 Uruk (mod. Warka)

29 no value

8 uncertain (mod. Jemdet Nasr)

191 uncertain (mod. uncertain)

Museum Collections

303 British Museum, London, UK

Composite/seal

0 composite

1 composite witness

286 seal

6 seal impression

10 other

Textual

Language

1 no linguistic content

287 no value

15 undetermined

Genre

296 Administrative

1 Lexical

1 Official or display

5 no value

Publication

Authors

1 Amiet, Pierre

3 Carnegie, Lady Helena

16 Collon, Dominique

4 Damerow, Peter

14 Englund, Robert K.

3 Frankfort, Henri

8 Grégoire, Jean-Pierre

2 Heinrich, Ernst

6 Langdon, Stephen H.

8 Legrain, Léon

5 Mallowan, Max E.

19 Matthews, Donald M.

8 Matthews, Roger J.

1 Nissen, Hans J.

2 Porada, Edith

2 Reade, Julian E.

108 Wiseman, Donald J.

10 Woolley, C. Leonard

1 al-Gailani Werr, Lamia

9 no value

2 van Buren, Elizabeth Douglas

Date of publication

3 1908

6 1928

2 1934

3 1936

3 1939

5 1947

2 1949

8 1951

8 1955

12 1959

107 1962

1 1973

1 1982

1 1988

8 1991

1 1992

1 1993

1 1994

1 1996

20 1997

2 1998

11 2005

2 2016

4 Unpublished

7 no value

Credits

Contributing project

9 Electronic Babylonian Library

11 Geomapping Landscapes of Writing

111 no value

Data

Artifact images

14 lineart

118 photo

Chemical data

0 With

303 Without

External link

1 Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities

1 Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts

9 Electronic Babylonian Library

11 The British Museum Collection

Image Annotations

0 With

303 Without

Publications

139 With

164 Without

Transliteration

301 With

2 Without

Text Annotations

0 With

303 Without

Transcription

0 With

303 Without

Translation

0 With

303 Without

Translation Language