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)
8365 (none) (none) (none) Copper bowl. Oval, with sunk base, now all warped out of shape, cracked and broken.
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.
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.
8369A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair. Each made of 2 1/2 spiral coils of gold wire thinned to a point at the ends. [drawing 1:1]
8370 (none) (none) (none) Copper razor(?) Good condition. [drawing] 1:1
8371 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. On one side the surface is badly perished. Type LVII.
8372 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Irregularly made and apparently cut down from a larger pot. Straight-sided [drawing] Type XXI.
8373 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Strongly veined calcite(?) Very badly broken, and the surface much decayed. Type XXV.
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)
8375 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large. One carnelian, one ball lapis and 6 diamond-shaped flat lapis beads; all found close together except the ball bead which lay apart. (NB the last had a thread through it so was not a pin-head as suggested in the field notes)
8376A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis bugles, small, and carnelian rings. These went to complete the triple collar with silver rings attached. See field notes item 8.
8376B (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large lapis and carnelian. Forming a separate string. See field notes item 8.
8376C (none) (none) (none) Beads. Silver. Some quadruple tubes from dog collar string, large lentoids which went with the larger lapis lentoids (U.8376B) and smaller beads.
8376D (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli double conoids, and 2 carnelians. For stringing, see field notes.
8377 (none) (none) (none) Beads etc. Large silver rings to which are attached spacers pierced by 3 holes: between these were set lapis bugles flanked by carnelian rings: see field notes. Part of the chain preserved as found.
8378A (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Cockle shells. 3 pairs. Containing paints.
8379 (none) (none) (none) Copper bowl. [drawing] Type XIV.
8380 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 91.
8381 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. The socket made by bending the end of the blade over the haft. [drawing] [Type] X.
8382 (none) (none) (none) Silver earring. Ordinary type. [drawing] 1:1
8383 (none) (none) (none) Copper reticule. The ball point broken.
8384 (none) (none) (none) Copper reticule. In poor condition.
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.
8396 (none) (none) (none) Copper reticule. Originally covered with thin red leather; containing 4 silver instruments: the rings at the top of these are made with fine silver wire coiled round their stems.
8397 (none) (none) (none) Copper bird. A silhouette in copper sheet, with the front wing added in relief. [drawing] 1:1 Possibly the head of a pin? A fragment of a copper pin was found close by.

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