Title: Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia     
Date: 2008     
Author: Baadsgaard, Aubrey     

Files

Objects: Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia | Trends, T Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
12425C.1 30-12-455 (none) (none) Group: [A] Silver hair ribbon. This has not been put on the head but is coiled up ready for use. [B.1-.2] Large gold lunate earring. [C.1-.3] Necklace of lapis and silver double conoid beads. [D.1-.2] 2 silver wire spiral coil hair rings. [E-F] 2 silver finger rings made from spiral coils of thin wire [G] Copper pin with fluted lapis head. Broken and in bad condition.
12468 30-12-623 (none) (none) Gold earring. With lunate ends, small and solid.
12467.2 30-12-636 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Gold earrings. A pair coiled with ends lunate, one end is single the other splits into 2 lobes. Thin metal over a core probably bitumen. [drawing 1:1]
12474.2 30-12-567 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. A very long chain composed of large and small jasper, chalcedony, agate, sard, marble, carnelian and other stones, cut as bugles, lentoids, barrels and flattened square-ended lentoids, alternating with gold balls, some plain, some ribbed, and one with relief pattern. These seem to have formed one chain but it must have passed two or three time round the neck: the beads covered a considerable area but lay very thickly under the head. Restrung on original pattern but not in original order. [additional drawing on back of catalog card] [drawing]
13798A 31-17-228 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 spearheads. Copper. Poker form. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
11908 30-12-759 (none) (none) Wreath. Gold ring pendants on a string of lapis and [crossed out] carnelian beads. [Drawing of ring and attachment]
10588C.1 (none) (none) B16738A Head ornament. A. Gold Ribbon B. Wreath of lapis and carnelian beads with gold mulberry-leaf pendants. C. [.1-.2] Large Gold Lunate Earrings D. Remains of silver head ornament with inlaid rosette petals [Drawing] E. [.1-.2] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. F. A silver pin, circular in section. Lapis ball head broken off. G. Silver and gold double conoids single string-gold and silver alternate.
12362B.1 30-12-692 (none) (none) Group [A.1-.2] (1) Large gold lunate earrings. [B.1-.2] (2) One large gold flower. [C] (3) Silver pin, straight type, with fluted lapis and gold head (Type V) [D] (4) Lapis and silver double conoid beads (for order see field notes)
12415F 30-12-664 (none) (none) Group: [A.1-.2] Large gold lunate earrings. [B] Necklace of gold and lapis triangles. [C] Necklace gold and lapis double conoid beads (for order see field notes). [D] Silver pin with lapis head [Type] VI B. [E] Bracelet of gold and lapis tubular beads and carnelian rings (for order see field notes). [F] A second similar bracelet.
12425D.2 30-12-615 (none) (none) Group: [A] Silver hair ribbon. This has not been put on the head but is coiled up ready for use. [B.1-.2] Large gold lunate earring. [C.1-.3] Necklace of lapis and silver double conoid beads. [D.1-.2] 2 silver wire spiral coil hair rings. [E-F] 2 silver finger rings made from spiral coils of thin wire [G] Copper pin with fluted lapis head. Broken and in bad condition.
12472B 30-12-578 (none) (none) [A-D] Gold bracelets: 4. Penannular rings of plain gold. Two are very solid and heavy. Two are lighter, made by hammering thin gold plate round a wire (?) which has been withdrawn (A was on the right arm, the other on the left).
8931A (none) (none) B16797 [A] Beads. A quantity of lapis beads, many double conoids, one large square, some bugles and some small ball beads: also, a few fairly large carnelian rings: found with and presumably strung up with U.8931B
10796A (none) (none) B17569 [A] Cylinder Seal Lapis lazuli With [B] one gold cap Presentation scene before seated god. Minor deity leads in a worshipper by the hand. Behind these a palm tree. Attribute. Crescent moon. cf. U.11104, PG 829 lapis seal same subject found at same depth.
12048 30-12-659 (none) (none) Necklace. Lapis & gold triangular spacers (rather small & poor).
12263.1 30-12-450 (none) (none) [.1-.3] Necklace. 3 rows of small gold & lapis ball beads. For stringing see Field note.
12264.1 30-12-452 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Necklace. Gold & lapis double conoids. For stringing see Field Note.
12264.2 30-12-637 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Necklace. Gold & lapis double conoids. For stringing see Field Note.
10588C.2 (none) (none) B16738B Head ornament. A. Gold Ribbon B. Wreath of lapis and carnelian beads with gold mulberry-leaf pendants. C. [.1-.2] Large Gold Lunate Earrings D. Remains of silver head ornament with inlaid rosette petals [Drawing] E. [.1-.2] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. F. A silver pin, circular in section. Lapis ball head broken off. G. Silver and gold double conoids single string-gold and silver alternate.
(none) (none) (none) B17292 (none)
8226A (none) (none) B16730 [A] Silver pin with plain ball head of lapis capped with gold. The shaft is pierced just below the head: [B] the 7 beads found just by it may have been fixed to the pin by this hole. The beads are catalogued with the pin. See field notes. [Type] V
9982 (none) (none) B16785 Silver Pin With fluted lapis ball head Type V
9598A (none) (none) B16953 [A-B] Pair of Copper Bangles One from each wrist; bones adhering
9598B (none) (none) B16953 [A-B] Pair of Copper Bangles One from each wrist; bones adhering
(none) 30-12-658 (none) (none) (none)
12444.1 30-12-581 (none) (none) [.1-.4] Beads. Double conoids. 31 of gold and a vast quantity of lapis all found scattered over the floor of the chamber.

Share

Email | Edit