Context Title: PG/55     
Context Name (Publication): Personal Grave 55     
Nissen Date: FD     

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7998 (none) 1928,1009.423 (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Small vertical-sided bowl; covered with a cockle-shell containing green pigment. Type VI.
7999 (none) 1928,1009.427 (none) Stone vase. Hemispherical bowl. White calcite(?) blackened by fire. Containing black substance, presumably a pigment. Type IX.
8000 (none) 1928,1009.184 (none) Three silver cockle shells. One inside the other. The inner one shows signs of a red substance perhaps a pigment. Natural size.
8001A (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8001B (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8001C (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8002 (none) 1928,1009.68 (none) Gold and lapis chain. A very fine chain of gold wire links. Six lengths of chain connecting 5 double conoid lapis beads. The chain is square in section.
8003 (none) 1928,1009.175 (none) Gold diadem. Made of fairly heavy strip gold, plain, but with a line of minute punctures along each edge.
8004 (none) 1928,1009.84 (none) Large ball bead of lapis with gold caps. Sphere with ribbed sides.
8005 (none) (none) (none) Gold ornament. A pear-shaped bead(?) pierced longitudinally, on which is perched a small bird apparently pecking at the fruit. In spite of the minute size the bird is well done and the eye and all the feathers are marked.
8014 (none) 1928,1009.189 (none) Copper pin. The head in the shape of a human hand with the thumb raised. [drawing 1:1]
8015 (none) 1928,1009.346 (none) Copper pin. Plain, with small ball head. [type] V.
8016 (none) B16765 (none) Copper pin. WIth ball head of carnelian and gold. Shaft broken and much of it missing. [type] V
8017 (none) (none) (none) Two gold beads. Elongated double conoids made of thin gold leaf over a core which has split and decayed, leaving the gold in fragments. These beads went with U.8011.
8018A (none) 1928,1009.81, 1928,1009.89 (none) Beads. Carnelian, agate, lapis and gold. [A] One string was of carnelian and gold. [B] One string of lapis and gold. [C] Agate beads were found touching each other end to end, so should form a string.
8019A (none) 1928,1009.142 (none) [A-B] Two lapis eye sockets. Intended to have shell iris set in (cf. one attached to U.8013)
8019B (none) (none) (none) Two lapis eye sockets [A-B]. Intended to have shell iris set in (cf. one attached to U.8013)
8020A (none) (none) (none) Two squares. [A] One of white bone. [B] One of dark grey stone. Each set with 5 inlay dots, black on the white square, white on the black, thus: [drawing 1:1]
8020B (none) (none) (none) Two squares. [A] One of white bone. [B] One of dark grey stone. Each set with 5 inlay dots, black on the white square, white on the black, thus: [drawing 1:1]
8021 (none) (none) (none) Cuttle-fish bones. Probably for toilet purposes.
8033 (none) 1928,1009.396 (none) Shell bull. Very delicately & boldly carved in white shell. A figure of a bull, facing rt, in exactly the position of the 'Ubaid copper frieze bulls, with the left fore leg bent at the knee and planted on the ground as if the animal were about to rise; the body in profile, the head turned to the front.
8011C (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carenlians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017]
8011D (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carenlians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017]
8018B (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, agate, lapis and gold. [A] One string was of carnelian and gold. [B] One string of lapis and gold. [C] Agate beads were found touching each other end to end, so should form a string.
8018C (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, agate, lapis and gold. [A] One string was of carnelian and gold. [B] One string of lapis and gold. [C] Agate beads were found touching each other end to end, so should form a string.
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