Context Title: Private Graves 201-300     
Context Name (Publication): Private Graves 201-300     

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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)
8340 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Triangular shape with out-curved sides and a trough spout at the apex of the triangle. [drawing] Type LXXVIII.
8373 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Strongly veined calcite(?) Very badly broken, and the surface much decayed. Type XXV.
8347 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark greenish steatite. The edge ornamented by nicking in a chevron pattern. Type IX.
8544 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl White limestone The rim decorated with nicks (broken) Type IX
8533 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl White limestone Oval with spout (Broken) and in bad condition Type XCVII
8363 (none) (none) (none) Spindle whorl of glazed frit, color now bleached. Plain domed top.
8408 (none) (none) (none) Silver ring. One and a half coils.
8404 (none) (none) (none) Silver pin Round in section. Ball head of stone, originally gold plated. Broken in 2 pieces. [Type] V.
8374 (none) (none) (none) Silver pendant. In bad condition. It was suspended on the quadrupal band of silver and lapis beads described on field notes (No. 14). Made of twisted filigree wire wound up into spiral whorls standing in high relief. [drawing] 1:1 (sketch)
8332 (none) (none) (none) Silver object. Probably a mirror. Thin flat metal. The silver is absolutely decayed and reduced to powder: the shape is fairly definite [drawing] but the edges are at present ragged and irregular. Real use of object quite uncertain.
8358 (none) (none) (none) Silver finger ring. A plain circle of silver wire with the ends overlapping. Found on the finger bone.
8382 (none) (none) (none) Silver earring. Ordinary type. [drawing] 1:1
8524A (none) (none) (none) Silver diadem Broken It appears to be formed of 2 separate parts: (A) A strip of thin silver plate (apparently plain) 0022 wide and about 018 long tapering to curved ends wherein are attachment holes: and (B) A strip of thin silver 005 wide twisted with a spiral coil so as to act as a spring: this appeared to be attached to (A) and to go round the back of the head.
8524B (none) (none) (none) Silver diadem Broken It appears to be formed of 2 separate parts: (A) A strip of thin silver plate (apparently plain) 0022 wide and about 018 long tapering to curved ends wherein are attachment holes: and (B) A strip of thin silver 005 wide twisted with a spiral coil so as to act as a spring: this appeared to be attached to (A) and to go round the back of the head.
8333 (none) (none) (none) Silver bowl. Oval, or boat-shaped with nearly vertical sides. In very bad condition, but waxed in situ and preserved. The measurements give a rather false idea of the vessel owing to its being crushed badly out of shape. The base measures 0075x0045 and is slightly sunk: the original width was probably c. 014 [Type] LXIII.
8442 (none) (none) (none) Pin Copper Broken in 2 places Top bent over flattened and widened at neck rounded in section at bottom. [drawing] not to scale. [Type] VI
8441 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 29 beads. Consisting of: 1 gold ring spacer (gold ring attached to a piece of gold foil bent so as to form six loops) 2 gold ball beads 1 gold barrel bead 1 gold bugle bead 5 barrel carnelians 1 double conoid carnelian 4 carnelian ring beads 6 lapis lazuli double conoids 8 small lapis beads [drawing] gold spacer (slightly enlarged)
8438 (none) (none) (none) Necklace 47 beads Including 5 carnelians worked with a white pattern Found in following order: 13 lapis lazuli double conoids 2 lapis ribbed ball beads 1 carnelian worked bead 2 lapis ribbed ball beads 2 gold ribbed ball beads 2 lapis ribbed ball beads 1 carnelian worked bead 2 lapis ribbed ball 2 gold ribbed ball beads ETC [drawing 1:1, section and plan of carnelian] 5 carnelian beads with white line patterns worked upon them. Double conoid in section. Slightly convex faces.
8436 (none) (none) (none) Knife Copper Broken in 3 places Fragment of tang remains with two rivets Thin rib down middle of blade [drawing]
8368 (none) (none) (none) Figurine of bull. Lapis lazuli. The bull seated, head L, the body in profile, the head turned to the spectator and seen full face: a formally-curled square beard is tied under the bull's chin by a cord passing across its nose.
8422 (none) (none) (none) Dagger Copper Flat blade. Single rivet on either side of short tang Poor condition. Pieces of blade edge missing. End of tang missing. [drawing] [Type] II
8385 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Subject: in front of a palisade a standing figure, then a seated figure facing him, between them a jar: a second palisade: three goats: in the field above various emblems (gaming board(?) Ziggurat(?) ear of corn, vases). Curious archaic piece.
8410 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. White. Deeply cut - poor condition. Fighting men - fighting bulls.
8339 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. decorative design. [drawing]
8367 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: Above, seated figure with attendant behind, drinking through a tube: then figure making offerings to a seated figure behind where are 2 attendants. Below: gate of shrine, man opening it(?) and man carrying a sheep to it. Then a standing attendant and 2 seated figures facing each other and drinking through tubes. Fine archaic work.

Media: Private Graves 201-300 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v6 p78 Ur Notes v6 p78 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v6 p79 Ur Notes v6 p79 (none)
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Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v6 p81 Ur Notes v6 p81 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v6 p82 Ur Notes v6 p82 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v6 p83 Ur Notes v6 p83 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v6 p90 Ur Notes v6 p90 (none)

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References

Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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