12488A | 30-12-345.1

12891http://www165.123.244.137/subject/12891/12488A | 30-12-345.1

MuseumUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum

Object TypeSpearheads/Lanceheads

Season Number07: 1928-1929

MaterialCopper Alloy

U Number12488A

Description (Modern)Copper Spearhead. Square in section to point. Where hafted there is a round piece of metal to attach wood to tang of spearhead. The tang itself is pierced with a piece of metal that acted as a rivet.

Description (Catalog Card)[A-C] Copper spearheads. Poker type. To each is attached a blade of thin metal which went round the wood of the shaft and with each goes a disk of copper, concave from the butt end of the shaft. Type VI.Woolley's description

Description (Archival)Square section. In 2 pieces. Type Ia. CBS Register: copper spearhead. square section, still hafted. poker type. length 690 mm. spear above halfting, length 340 mm See 30-12-345.1-.2

Find Context (Catalog Card)PG 1422

Material (Catalog Card)CopperMaterial as described by Woolley

Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)30-12-345.1

Measurement (Catalog Card)L. of point ? 035 Total L. 068

Measurement (Diameter)27Haft

Measurement (Diameter)3Rivet

Measurement (X)348Point only

Measurement (X)452Total Length

Measurement (X)24Rivet

Measurement (Y)13Point

Measurement (Y)9Tang

Measurement (Z)13Point

Measurement (Z)9Tang

Conservation2007. University Museum Near East Section Ur Metals Conservation Treatment Project. IMLS Grant.

PseudomorphWood