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)
10824B (none) 1928,1010.127 (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
10824I 87-28-22 (none) (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
10825B (none) 1928,1010.320 (none) Tomb Group. A. Copper helmet on [D] head. B. Copper spearhead. Type IV. [drawing] C. Copper spearhead, poker type Type I.
10826B (none) 1928,1010.337 (none) Tomb Group. A) Copper helmet on [D] skull. B) Spearhead, copper, poker type, Type I. C) Copper spearhead, point broken and missing. Type V. (without ribs or tang). [drawing]
10827B (none) 1928,1010.338 (none) Tomb Group A. Copper helmet. B. Copper spearhead, poker type, tip missing. It is not quite of the normal type in that the section is diamond instead of square the tang, type I. variant. C. Copper spearhead, no ribs or tang, tip missing. Type V. [drawing]
10830A (none) 1928,1010.191 (none) Tomb Group. A. Silver and lapis lentoid beads. B. Silver razor (?) Type XVI. [drawing] C. Copper razor, same type, stem broken: corroded to remains of a second which is all decayed Type XVI. D. [.1-.2] Silver earrings, wire spiral coils, two. E. A number of shell rings. F. Cockle shells containing paint.
10866A.2 (none) (none) B16756 [A.1-.3] Beads Double conoids Gold 68 Lapis 250 Probably forming 3 separate strings, one of gold, two of lapis
10866A.3 (none) (none) B16781 [A.1-.3] Beads Double conoids Gold 68 Lapis 250 Probably forming 3 separate strings, one of gold, two of lapis
10866B.2 (none) 1928,1010.192 (none) [B.1-.2] Gold earrings a pair Unusually large, with lunate ends. [drawing] 1:1
10872 (none) (none) B16728 Cylinder Seal Lapis 2 registers: above, 2 seated figures facing with three attendants standing; below, (shrine?) (or table?) with standing servitor, a harpist and 2 other standing figures facing him, a servant, a seated figure and an attendant.
10877A (none) (none) B16717 Gold finger rings A-D five, all similar design a flat hoop with plain beading and cable coils in centre (made from coiled wire)
10877B (none) (none) B16718 Gold finger rings A-D five, all similar design a flat hoop with plain beading and cable coils in centre (made from coiled wire)
10877C (none) (none) B16719 Gold finger rings A-D five, all similar design a flat hoop with plain beading and cable coils in centre (made from coiled wire)
10877D (none) (none) B16720 Gold finger rings A-D five, all similar design a flat hoop with plain beading and cable coils in centre (made from coiled wire)
10878 (none) (none) B16721 Gold finger ring In the middle of the band, 3 rows of cable pattern : round each edge an inlaid line of lapis lazuli (much of the stone missing)
10879 (none) (none) B17063 Beads From the belt Plain short bugles of lapis, gold and carnelian, and minute ball beads in the same material: see Field Notes.
10889 (none) (none) B16735 Beads Big double conoids of gold (plated) lapis and carnelian For order see Field Notes
10890A.1 (none) (none) (none) [A.1-.2] Gold ear-rings a pair wire spiral coils
10890A.2 (none) (none) (none) [A.1-.2] Gold ear-rings a pair wire spiral coils
10901A (none) (none) B16711 [A-B] Silver Cockle Shells a pair fastened together by corrosion, presumably containing paint
10932B (none) (none) B16710 [A-B] Gold Cockle-shells. Pair. modeled on the real, the ribs rendered by engraved lines. Inside one is green paint. [drawing]
10933A.1 (none) (none) B17712A Pair Gold earrings. [A.1-.2] Grotesquely large examples of the common lunate type (hollow). Found on the head of the queen immediately below the ribbon headdress.
10933A.2 (none) (none) B17712B Pair Gold earrings. [A-B] Grotesquely large examples of the common lunate type (hollow). Found on the head of the queen immediately below the ribbon headdress.
10934 (none) (none) B17711a Head-dress. Consisting of a mass of gold ribbon (U.17711A). See Field Notes. See also Nos. U.10935-9
10935A (none) (none) B17708 [A] Gold ring pendants 19 in all strung up with lapis & carnelian bead (see field notes) & worn round the head below the leaf bands U.10936 and U.10937. [drawing 1:1]

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