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)
8004 (none) 1928,1009.84 (none) Large ball bead of lapis with gold caps. Sphere with ribbed sides.
8016 (none) B16765 (none) Copper pin. WIth ball head of carnelian and gold. Shaft broken and much of it missing. [type] V
8128 (none) 1928,1009.168 (none) Gold ring In 3 coils
8202 (none) 1928,1009.44 (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Much decayed and scarcely legible. Scene, Gilgamesh and lion, Eabani and bull.
8552 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large shell rings.
8616B (none) 1928,1009.165 (none) [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair. [drawing 1:1]
8619 (none) 1928,1009.188 (none) Silver pin. With fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold.
8620 (none) 1928,1009.83 (none) Beads. Carnelian double conoids, and a few silver ditto, large. The silver much decayed.
8704 (none) 1928,1009.61 (none) Necklace Consisting of 111 lapis lazuli beads - double conoids 26 gold double conoids Apparently the gold beads were in the centre of the necklace, gold and lapis being alternated.
8761 (none) 1928,1009.91 (none) Necklace. 12 burnt lentoids, Lapis beads. 6 burnt double conoid lapis. 7 ribbed lapis ball beads. 7 double conoid carnelians. 1 carnelian shaped thus: [drawing]. The rest small carnelian and lapis ring ball and barrel beads - 25. Grand total 58. The lapis lentoids and carnelian double conoids were strung alternately in the middle of the necklace - at the back of the neck all the small lapis beads were strung together.
8959 (none) 1928,1009.176 (none) Gold diadem. A plain ribbon of thin gold leaf with holes at the ends for strings. Found on the skull.
8960A (none) 1928,1009.157 (none) Gold earring. A pair. Normal type. [drawing]
8961A (none) 1928,1009.191 (none) [A-C] Finger rings Silver: (2 others were broken and thrown away) Plain coils of silver wire one 2 1/2 coils and two 3 1/2 coils
8964 (none) 1928,1009.203 (none) Bracelet. Plain circlet of silver tube, penannular. Also, fragments of a 2nd similar.
9604A (none) 1928,1010.287 (none) 4 Silver Finger Rings [A-D] 2 1/2 coils.
9604B (none) 1928,1010.290 (none) 4 Silver Finger Rings [A-D] 2 1/2 coils.
9605 (none) 1928,1010.288 (none) Copper Finger Ring Single coil
9649 (none) 1928,1010.701 (none) Silver earrings. Loops of 2 1/2 spiral coils of thin silver wire. 1 ring partly broken.
9782 (none) 1928,1010.181 (none) Beads Two large lapis lentoids One gold lentoid 1 lapis bugle
9811A (none) 1928,1010.266 (none) [A-F] Gold Ribbons. (6) All consist of long undulating coils, and are perforated at each end for attachment. 5 of these were found running at right angles to the diadem 9810 cf. Field Notes - the sixth was found beneath it and parallel to it; this one however may have slipped from above. One of the ribbons has a special interest as on its under side it shows the imprint of very fine network. Probably therefore the head was veiled. The 2 central ribbons are the longest; the side ribbons are shorter.
9818 (none) 1928,1010.271 (none) Silver Bangle Broken and part missing [drawing]
9895A (none) 1928,1010.225 (none) Two Gold Diadems Thin gold leaf worn on forehead Perforated ends
9961 (none) 1928,1010.310 (none) Copper Dagger With central rib and short rounded tang and six rivets Type 3 (new)
9983 (none) 1928,1010.292 (none) Gold earrings Very large lunates of thin metal much crushed and distorted, and the wire suspender of one missing
9988 (none) 1928,1010.294 (none) Gold Ribbon For a headdress. Part only: the rest mixed with PG 806.

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