Context Title: PG/800     
Context Name (Publication): PG 800 (Royal Tomb)     
Context Description: This is the death pit that Woolley associated with the tomb chamber of Queen Puabi (PG/800B), though the floor of that chamber is about 2.5 meters lower in depth. The death pit held the remains of more than 20 people as well two oxen, a cart and a potential wardrobe chest. Woolley believed the wardrobe chest had been centrally placed in order to hide the looting hole made into the roof of the PG/789 chamber below.     
Nissen Date: Mk     
Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
10466B (none) (none) B17334 Copper spear butts [drawing] Type__
10467 (none) (none) (none) Copper drill (?) Square in section, thickened to head which has been let into a wooden handle.
10468 (none) (none) (none) Copper Collar From one of the asses harnessed to the chariot. Only one end survives: it is a large lunate sheet decorated with eye pattern in repousse work: at the end of the cresent is a fastener. The jaw-bone of the ass is attached to it. [drawing]
10469 (none) (none) (none) Copper Collar From the second ass harnessed to the chariot. Only a fragment preserved attached to part of the asses' jaw-bone, cf. 10468.
10470 (none) 1928,1010.412 (none) Whetstone Brown stone Pierced for suspension
10471 (none) 1928,1010.328 (none) Copper Dagger Broken into 3 pieces Type__
10473 (none) (none) (none) Copper Vessels A number, all corroded together, mostly tall tumblers, and with these a libation-jug and a pattern Types 43, 83, 32 (new)
10474 (none) (none) (none) Copper Vessels All corroded together
10476A (none) 1928,1010.326 (none) [A-B] Copper Tools 2 Corroded together Oval thin sheet: use uncertain [drawing] Type 2 (new)
10476B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Copper Tools 2 Corroded together Oval thin sheet: use uncertain [drawing] Type 2 (new)
10477 (none) 1928,1010.411 (none) Whetstone Grey stone, broken, hung on a loop of gold wire [drawing] 1:1
10478A (none) (none) (none) Gaming-Board. With men and dice. [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found. Found behind the chariot.
10478B (none) (none) (none) Gaming-Board. With men and dice. [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found. Found behind the chariot.
10478C (none) (none) (none) Gaming-Board. With men and dice. [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found. Found behind the chariot.
10478D (none) (none) (none) Gaming-Board. With men and dice. [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found. Found behind the chariot.
10478E (none) (none) (none) Gaming-Board With men & dice [A] The board is of the usual shape with vertical borders of shell and red stone strips: round the edge a mosaic of minute tesserae in blue, red, and white. The squares were of the original wood which formed the body of the board, each square inlaid with 5 eyes of shell having red or blue centres, except for two which are squares of shell inlaid with a flower rosette having red and blue petals: the squares are divided by narrow ivory strips inlaid with red and blue dots. The wood has perished and has been replaced with plaster of paris. Under one end of the board were found the men in 2 piles: there are [C] 7 white and [B] 7 black, the latter of shell inlaid with 5 white spots, the former of shell engraved with animal scenes, the details and the background filled in with black. Under the other end of the board was [D] a set of six dice of white shell, solid triangles, having blue dots at 2 of the 4 points of each: scattered in the neighborhood was a [E] second set of lapis with gold points, of which only 4 were found
10479 (none) 1928,1010.159 (none) Plaster Cast Of a hole in the ground above the box in PG 800: the hole was vertical and showed traces of wood: the upper part had been cut away and only the lower part was cast. It seems to have been a wooden wand which was carved to represent a snake coiled around the staff.
10480 (none) (none) B17166 Stone Bowl Calcite Translucent Light green Oval shaped with single rib at either end running from rim to base: double barrel lug handles in middle of each long side of bowl. Badly broken and part missing Type CIII
10481 (none) (none) B17152 Stone Bowl steatite grey Bell shaped Broken and mended. Small piece missing from rim and side Type LXVI
10482 (none) 1928,1010.422 (none) Stone Bowl steatite grey Bell shaped Broken & mended. Small piece missing from rim and side Type LXII
10483 (none) 1928,1010.423 (none) Stone Bowl steatite grey Bell shaped Broken and mended. 3 small pieces missing from side Type LXII
10484 (none) (none) B17133 Stone Bowl Calcite White Translucent [drawing] 2:5 Type LXIII
10485 (none) 1928,1010.473 (none) Stone Vase Calcite Squat spill vase type White drab Common type. Base very slightly rounded. Poor condition. Broken and mended. Small portion of rim missing. [drawing] 2:5 Type CII
10486 (none) 1928,1010.472 (none) Stone Vase Calcite Squat spill vase type Broken and mended. Complete. Type CII
10487 (none) 1928,1010.451 (none) Stone Vase calcite greenish Part of surface decayed Broken and mended. Small portion of base missing. [drawing] Type XVII

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