Title: PG1054 Field Notes     
Date: 1922-1934     
Author: Woolley et al     
Publisher: Unpublished     

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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)
11917 (none) 1929,1017.632 (none) 3 Copper Vessels. (A) Shallow dish, circular with narrow trough spout; (B) similar; (C) A strainer, with handle (broken)
11742B (none) 1929,1017.240 (none) Beads. Frontlet. Small gold ring pendants [A] (13) string on 3 rows of beads [B]: between each pair one very small lapis bead, one carnelian tubular bead, one very small lapis bead.
11911 (none) 1929,1017.248 (none) Beads. Gold balls (hollow) and balls of light yellow carnelian.
11743K (none) 1929,1017.274 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743H (none) 1929,1017.271 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743J (none) 1929,1017.273 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743I (none) 1929,1017.272 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743G (none) 1929,1017.270 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743F (none) 1929,1017.269 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743E (none) 1929,1017.268 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743D (none) 1929,1017.267 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743C (none) 1929,1017.266 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743B (none) 1929,1017.265 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11744D (none) 1929,1017.260 (none) Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11744E (none) 1929,1017.275 (none) Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11525 30-12-309 (none) (none) Copper axe. Type A3(new) [drawing]
11924 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl. Oval, with verticular tubular handles. Type LXIII
11925 (none) (none) (none) Copper Dish (see Field Notes). [Annotated] Type LVI
11923 (none) (none) (none) Copper Ladle. [Annotated] Type 2 [?]
11922 (none) (none) (none) Copper Patten [Drawing] [Annotated] Type XXVIII
11573 (none) 1929,1017.503 (none) Copper Spearhead poker type. [Type]VI
11904 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Gold. Of thin metal pressed over a core of some other material: at the ends, shell caps, of which one is missing. Above: the royal family feasting. Below: harpist & other musicians.
11751 (none) 1929,1017.348 (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal.
11906 (none) 1929,1017.47 (none) Frontlet. An ellipse of gold plate engraved with an 8-pointed star of the conventional type: at each end a wire for attachment, one ending in a loop, the other in a wooden button.
11735 (none) 1929,1017.51 (none) Gold Diadem. Plain strip of rather heavy metal with a hole at each end.
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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
PG/1054 The grave is a complex one, consisting of a deep, walled shaft above a rubble and earth domed tomb. Woolley believed that the burials in the shaft acted as a kind of death pit, thus he believed the bodies in the shaft to be attendants to the primary burial in the domed chamber below. In the main chamber were the bodies of five people, four men and one woman. The woman was clearly an important person, lying in the center of the tomb and having a gold cylinder seal as well as other high value objects, including much carnelian. The walls of the shaft above began from a layer packed over the domed chamber and in theory could be a different grave entirely. However, Woolley believed he had evidence of a continuous process that included the packing and smoothing of layers above the dome and then the construction of the shaft. In the shaft, at differing levels, were four more burials. Some of these also possessed rather high-end objects and one had nearby a cylinder seal with the name of Meskalamdug, the King. In his section of PG1054, Woolley reconstructed a dome over this grave, but later intrusive burials had destroyed the upper walls and, if it had been there, the upper, smaller dome as well. (none)
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