 | 8086 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin.
Circular section to shaft, hole near head: head pointed.
[type] IV.
[drawing] |
| 8065 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe.
Normal type except that the rib down the back of the socket is unusually pronounced.
[drawing]
Type A1.b |
| 806 | (none) | 1923,1110.2 | (none) | Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone. |
| 805 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diorite statue. Of Entemena. Found in burnt layer on Nabonidus pavement before the inner doorway of the Ziggurat gate in the SW temenos wall. Headless. Long inscription on rt. upper arm and across back of shoulders. Wears usual fleece skirt: hands clasped below breasts. |
| 8042 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin
with tanged head
The shaft, almost rectangular in section, thickens towards the top and is pierced with a small hole. |
 | 8033 | (none) | 1928,1009.396 | (none) | Shell bull.
Very delicately & boldly carved in white shell. A figure of a bull, facing rt, in exactly the position of the 'Ubaid copper frieze bulls, with the left fore leg bent at the knee and planted on the ground as if the animal were about to rise; the body in profile, the head turned to the front. |
 | 8026 | (none) | (none) | B17461 | Copper pin. Point missing. The shaft widens above and is pierced by a small hole; then it thins down and bends over and ends in a large ball head (the material perhaps a paste) originally capped with silver which has now almost all gone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8005 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold ornament. A pear-shaped bead(?) pierced longitudinally, on which is perched a small bird apparently pecking at the fruit. In spite of the minute size the bird is well done and the eye and all the feathers are marked. |
| 8002 | (none) | 1928,1009.68 | (none) | Gold and lapis chain. A very fine chain of gold wire links. Six lengths of chain connecting 5 double conoid lapis beads. The chain is square in section. |
| 7952B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Pair of earrings. Gold and silver. A spiral ring of gold with thickened lobe ends supports a similar gold ring; from this hangs a similar ring of silver (the silver ring is in each case broken). [drawing] |
| 7952A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Pair of earrings. Gold and silver. A spiral ring of gold with thickened lobe ends supports a similar gold ring; from this hangs a similar ring of silver (the silver ring is in each case broken). [drawing] |
 | 7916 | (none) | (none) | B16906 | Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head. |
| 7913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Comb. Ivory. White. Fragment. Two rows of teeth; one row has been worn down at an angle. The flat space between the tooth-rows decorated with lines and dotted circles. |
| 7908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick. Ivory. Rectangular in section, thickening towards the head and then sharpened to point. |
| 7907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 7906 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mirror handle. Shell. [drawing] |
| 7905 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mirror handle. Ivory. Rounded handle; rectangular tang at top to fit into mirror-socket. [drawing] |
| 7904 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Paint pot. Ivory. In form of sphinx of Phoenico-Assyrian style: the box is an oblong depression between the wings. Indifferent carving, and the wing in poor condition; half of the face of the sphinx missing. [additional notes on back of catalog card follow:] U.6665, correct Pl. reference in Pl.25. Plate 15. Captions wanted. Pl.23 = add catalogue number. Keep Pl.33 but insert the new weapon types. For Pl.34 (new), use metal objects above and 800m ran [last word illegible] types infers. Change Plate numbers 34 (adr[...]) h3. Plate 36, keep number. Plate 35, adr[...], change number h3. Pl.37 (adr[...]) to become a figure in the text. pp.25. Gold to catalogue U.6456, Legrain's [illegible] No.734. |
| 7903 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory box lid. Circular. Convex above with line border and central rosette, 12-petalled: rabetted below to fit circular box. |
| 7902 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Comb. Ivory. Most of the teeth broken off short, only the end guard left to show their original length. On both sides of the flat upper part, an engraving of a bull set in a frame of lines and dotted circles. On one side the bull has his tail down. on the other above his back: otherwise, the 2 engravings are similar and show the bull with head lowered to strike. Very fine Phoenician work. |
 | 7901 | (none) | (none) | B17241 | Clay vase. Glazed. Originally green, bleached white and yellow. Pomegranate shaped. Part of rim missing. Type CCCI or RC.17. |
| 7900 | (none) | 1928,1009.395 | (none) | Shell plaque. White shell engraved with figure of a naked priest right who holds a libation-vase up in front of a post mounted on a tripod? (only 2 legs shown): on other side of the post hand (perhaps from a cross bar not shown) two objects like reins with loops at the ends. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7880 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Mushroom-shaped head, round shaft, pointed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7863 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli and gold shaft has round section. Head thus: [drawing] |
| 7851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Thickly covered with corrosion but intact. [drawing] |