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

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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)
12307 (none) 1930,1213.542 (none) Necklace. Beads consisting of Lapis & silver balls.
15304 (none) 1930,1213.17 (none) Gold earring. Small, lunate, light: and gold, lapis & carnelian beads small: for order see Field Notes.
15303 (none) 1930,1213.163 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 men fighting a lion; crescent & star. Poor cutting.
13797A (none) 1930,1213.16 (none) [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis.
14478 (none) 1930,1213.137 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. 3 deep grooves, between which 3 pairs of human figures rough primitive work mostly done with a drill-point.
13796 (none) 1930,1213.13 (none) Frontlet. 2 lengths of gold chain. 1 gold & 2 (discolored) lapis facetted lentoid beads; 4 carnelian rings.
12432U (none) 1929,1017.84 (none) Tomb groups. With bodies. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --No. 3: [A] Whetstone. --No. 11: [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [C] Lapis and silver lentoid and bugle beads. --No. 13: [D] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [E] Facetted lapis bugles and some silver lentoid beads. --No. 14: [F-G] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings . [H] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 15: [I] Double conoid lapis beads. --No. 16: [J] Very small lapis ball beads. --No.17: [K] Large facetted lapis lentoids. --No. 18: [L] Lapis double conoid beads. --No. 19: [M] Lapis lentoids and some silver beads. --No. 20: [N-O] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [P] Lapis lentoid beads. --No. 21: [Q] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 22: [R] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. [S] Facetted lapis lentoid beads. [T] Cylinder seal, white shell, decayed (not kept) --No. 23: [U] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [V] Lapis and silver small lentoid beads and a few lapis balls.
12432B (none) 1929,1017.80 (none) Tomb groups. With bodies. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --No. 3: [A] Whetstone. --No. 11: [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [C] Lapis and silver lentoid and bugle beads. --No. 13: [D] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [E] Facetted lapis bugles and some silver lentoid beads. --No. 14: [F-G] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings . [H] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 15: [I] Double conoid lapis beads. --No. 16: [J] Very small lapis ball beads. --No.17: [K] Large facetted lapis lentoids. --No. 18: [L] Lapis double conoid beads. --No. 19: [M] Lapis lentoids and some silver beads. --No. 20: [N-O] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [P] Lapis lentoid beads. --No. 21: [Q] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 22: [R] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. [S] Facetted lapis lentoid beads. [T] Cylinder seal, white shell, decayed (not kept) --No. 23: [U] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [V] Lapis and silver small lentoid beads and a few lapis balls.
12432F (none) 1929,1017.79 (none) Tomb groups. With bodies. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --No. 3: [A] Whetstone. --No. 11: [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [C] Lapis and silver lentoid and bugle beads. --No. 13: [D] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [E] Facetted lapis bugles and some silver lentoid beads. --No. 14: [F-G] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings . [H] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 15: [I] Double conoid lapis beads. --No. 16: [J] Very small lapis ball beads. --No.17: [K] Large facetted lapis lentoids. --No. 18: [L] Lapis double conoid beads. --No. 19: [M] Lapis lentoids and some silver beads. --No. 20: [N-O] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [P] Lapis lentoid beads. --No. 21: [Q] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 22: [R] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. [S] Facetted lapis lentoid beads. [T] Cylinder seal, white shell, decayed (not kept) --No. 23: [U] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [V] Lapis and silver small lentoid beads and a few lapis balls.
12432G (none) 1929,1017.79 (none) Tomb groups. With bodies. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --No. 3: [A] Whetstone. --No. 11: [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [C] Lapis and silver lentoid and bugle beads. --No. 13: [D] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [E] Facetted lapis bugles and some silver lentoid beads. --No. 14: [F-G] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings . [H] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 15: [I] Double conoid lapis beads. --No. 16: [J] Very small lapis ball beads. --No.17: [K] Large facetted lapis lentoids. --No. 18: [L] Lapis double conoid beads. --No. 19: [M] Lapis lentoids and some silver beads. --No. 20: [N-O] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [P] Lapis lentoid beads. --No. 21: [Q] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 22: [R] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. [S] Facetted lapis lentoid beads. [T] Cylinder seal, white shell, decayed (not kept) --No. 23: [U] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [V] Lapis and silver small lentoid beads and a few lapis balls.
12391B (none) 1929,1017.728 (none) Group: [A.1-.2] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [B] Necklace of lapis and silver double conoid beads. [C] Copper pin [Type] VI B (broken). [D] Copper dagger Type II E (broken).
11738 (none) 1929,1017.561 (none) Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V.
11737 (none) 1929,1017.560 (none) Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. Type V.
12634 (none) 1929,1017.52 (none) Gold ribbon. Gold ribbon. Worn across forehead and coiled to contain intertwined coils. Ends rounded off and perforated. Broken in 3 pieces.
11735 (none) 1929,1017.51 (none) Gold Diadem. Plain strip of rather heavy metal with a hole at each end.
11573 (none) 1929,1017.503 (none) Copper Spearhead poker type. [Type]VI
12463B (none) 1929,1017.49 (none) Gold fillets. [A-F] Six. Thin leaf gold. All worn on head of one man. [drawing]
11576A (none) 1929,1017.40 (none) Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
11576B (none) 1929,1017.40 (none) Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
11801 (none) 1929,1017.391 (none) Whetstone. Greenish stone.
12371E (none) 1929,1017.373 (none) Group: [A.1-.3] 3 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [B] Necklace of gold and lapis large fluted ball beads. [C] Copper pin with ball head VI B. [D] Slender copper needle. [E] Cylinder seal, white calcite.
12704H (none) 1929,1017.371 (none) Group: [A] (1) Stone vase. White calcite. Type same as U.12277 [Type] LII. [B] (2) Stone vase. White calcite. Spill type. [drawing 1:5] [C] (3) Stone bowl grey steatite. Broken but complete [Type] LXXXVI. [D] (4) Stone bowl. White calcite. [Type] LIII. [drawing 2:5] [E] (5) Three silver finger rings: corroded together - only one intact - consisting of 3 1/2 coils of fine wire. [F] (6) Remains of copper pin with fluted lapis ball head. Type V B. [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: spread eagles and rampant gazelles (?). Below: Gazelles. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Rampant lions crossed and gazelles. [I] (9) Beads. Lapis bugles and double conoids. Carnelian bugles and rings and some silver wire pendants much decayed. See field note. The silver spiral pendants had 4 circles of spiral coils made out of a single strip of wire thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] [J] Also in the necklace a minute lapis lazuli frog amulet. [K] Round forehead thin gold ribbon. [drawing] [L] Large double conoid carnelian beads and a few bugles and one calcite bead shaped thus [reference to drawing], diamond shaped in section.
12296 (none) 1929,1017.356 (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. 2 registers. Stags rampant & other animals.
12461 (none) 1929,1017.350 (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Much decayed. 2 registers: below; chariot, foot soldiers and prisoner. Above; men and animals fighting and inscription partly destroyed. Inscription: A- dugud(or gig)-(bu??)-dim (Nom. Properties, perhaps = son of the Dugud (bird) of the good Immer. cf. U.8513) HC.25.
11884 (none) 1929,1017.328 (none) Beads. Lapis bugles & carnelian rings from a wreath of silver beech leaves. 1-kept.

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