Context Title: PG/337     
Context Name (Publication): PG 337 (Royal Tomb)     
Context Description: The earliest of the royal graves found, it was identified as such after the criteria for royal graves was established. This grave appeared in Trial Trench E and was not well mapped, but reportedly contained remains of a mudbrick wall that Woolley later interpreted as the destroyed tomb chamber associated with a death pit.     
Nissen Date: Mk     

Objects: PG/337 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
8612 (none) (none) B16775 Gold ribbon. A mass of very thin gold ribbon, wide: originally a single length, now broken into a number of pieces. See field notes.
8613A (none) 1928,1009.76 (none) Gold chains etc. [A-B] Two sections of gold chain with crochet links . When found (A) passed through a curled gold earring (C) [drawing] With these, [D] two lapis facetted lentoid beads, 4 carnelian rings, and remains of a large silver-plated bead with horizontal ribbing - the latter wholly decayed.
8613B (none) 1928,1009.76 (none) Gold chains etc. [A-B] Two sections of gold chain with crochet links . When found (A) passed through a curled gold earring (C) [drawing] With these, [D] two lapis facetted lentoid beads, 4 carnelian rings, and remains of a large silver-plated bead with horizontal ribbing - the latter wholly decayed.
8613C (none) 1928,1009.76 (none) Gold chains etc. [A-B] Two sections of gold chain with crochet links . When found (A) passed through a curled gold earring (C) [drawing] With these, [D] two lapis facetted lentoid beads, 4 carnelian rings, and remains of a large silver-plated bead with horizontal ribbing - the latter wholly decayed.
8613D (none) (none) (none) Gold chains etc. [A-B] Two sections of gold chain with crochet links . When found (A) passed through a curled gold earring (C) [drawing] With these, [D] two lapis facetted lentoid beads, 4 carnelian rings, and remains of a large silver-plated bead with horizontal ribbing - the latter wholly decayed.
8614 (none) (none) B16829 Beads. 3 Gold squares 33 x 20mm 3 lapis diamonds [drawing] strung together. (v. field notes) and probably joined on to the cylinder seal U.8615.
8615 (none) (none) B16828 Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above: three seated deities(?) with a worshipper in front of each. Below: door: 3 seated and 3 standing figures. Archaic style.
8616A (none) (none) B16708 [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair. [drawing 1:1]
8616B (none) 1928,1009.165 (none) [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair. [drawing 1:1]
8617 (none) (none) B16776 Silver hair ornament(?) [drawing]
8618A (none) (none) B16842 [A-C] Gold finger rings. Three, plain circlets of gold wire. 2 of them found inside one of the big earrings U.8616.
8618B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Gold finger rings. Three, plain circlets of gold wire. 2 of them found inside one of the big earrings U.8616.
8618C (none) (none) B16842 [A-C] Gold finger rings. Three, plain circlets of gold wire. 2 of them found inside one of the big earrings U.8616.
8619 (none) 1928,1009.188 (none) Silver pin. With fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold.
8620 (none) 1928,1009.83 (none) Beads. Carnelian double conoids, and a few silver ditto, large. The silver much decayed.
8621 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small lapis, with a few silver: strung together.
8622 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Silver ring spacers with between them small beads of silver, lapis and carnelian The silver beads in very bad condition. Order thus [reference to drawing] see field notes. [drawing]
8623 (none) 1928,1009.499 (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type XL.
8624A (none) (none) B16766 [A-B] Silver earrings. A pair. 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire.
8624B (none) (none) B16766 [A-B] Silver earrings. A pair. 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire.
8625 (none) (none) B17451 Copper bowl. Oval type. Originally provided with a long handle attached to the rim at the middle of the longer sides: this is missing. It was probably of thin (silver?) wire.
8626 98-9-1 (none) (none) Copper bowl. Type 14.
8627A (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper tray. ?type 85 (new). Shallow, circular, with beaten-up rim and wide spout flush with tray bottom. Type 13. Resting on this and corroded to it is [B] a copper object [drawing] of sheet copper 70mm wide, the ends bent up. [drawing 1:5]
8627B (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper tray. ?type 85 (new). Shallow, circular, with beaten-up rim and wide spout flush with tray bottom. Type 13. Resting on this and corroded to it is [B] a copper object [drawing] of sheet copper 70mm wide, the ends bent up. [drawing 1:5]
8628 (none) 1928,1010.383 (none) Copper vase. Shaped rather like a samovar and carved with an open network of twisted silver wire. One end open and the edge here missing (it stood in the soil with this thin end uppermost) Type 12
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Media: PG/337 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur_Notes_v2_p015 Ur_Notes_v2_p015 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p12 Ur Notes v8 p12 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p13 Ur Notes v8 p13 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p14 Ur Notes v8 p14 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p15 Ur Notes v8 p15 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p16 Ur Notes v8 p16 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p17 Ur Notes v8 p17 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p18 Ur Notes v8 p18 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p19 Ur Notes v8 p19 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p20 Ur Notes v8 p20 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p21 Ur Notes v8 p21 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p22 Ur Notes v8 p22 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v8 p23 Ur Notes v8 p23 (none)
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