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)
11744B 30-12-640 (none) (none) Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11743P 30-12-639 (none) (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
12264.2 30-12-637 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Necklace. Gold & lapis double conoids. For stringing see Field Note.
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]
12186A 30-12-635 (none) (none) [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair. Spirals 2 1/2 coils.
12186B 30-12-634 (none) (none) [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair. Spirals 2 1/2 coils.
12702C 30-12-633B (none) (none) Group: [A] 1) Bead. Gold balls; carnelian bugles and barrels, agate boss, chalcedony flat lentoid. Agate double conoid, and silver also copper balls. Lapis diamonds. [B-C] 2) Gold earrings. A pair 1 1/2 coils, lunate ended - hollow bag like ends.
12702B 30-12-633A (none) (none) Group: [A] 1) Bead. Gold balls; carnelian bugles and barrels, agate boss, chalcedony flat lentoid. Agate double conoid, and silver also copper balls. Lapis diamonds. [B-C] 2) Gold earrings. A pair 1 1/2 coils, lunate ended - hollow bag like ends.
11744A 30-12-629 (none) (none) Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
12704I 30-12-627 (none) (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.
12468 30-12-623 (none) (none) Gold earring. With lunate ends, small and solid.
12425E 30-12-622 (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.
11809C 30-12-619 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
11809B 30-12-618 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
12425G 30-12-617 (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.
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.
12425F 30-12-614 (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.
12425B.2 30-12-613 (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-E] 2 silver wire spiral coil hair rings. [F-G] 2 silver finger rings made from spiral coils of thin wire [H] Copper pin with fluted lapis head. Broken and in bad condition.
12425B.1 30-12-612 (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.
12425A 30-12-611 (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.
11894 30-12-610 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids & lapis beads of various sorts, carnelian rings & jasper bugles. For order see Field Notes.
12184 30-12-604 (none) (none) Gold Fillet. Dot border. Perforated at each end. [drawing]
12464 30-12-603 (none) (none) Gold diadem. A plain oval of sheet gold with a small hole at each end. Found not on the head but against a silver vase by the hands
12463D 30-12-600 (none) (none) Gold fillets. [A-F] Six. Thin leaf gold. All worn on head of one man. [drawing]
12463C 30-12-599 (none) (none) Gold fillets. [A-F] Six. Thin leaf gold. All worn on head of one man. [drawing]

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