Description (Media Properties): Ur Excavation photo negatives Provisional     
Title: British Museum Photo Negatives     
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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)
467 (none) (none) B15240 Gold finger ring. Poor work. Hoop. Has raised rim and vertical hatching very scratchily done: past bezel, yellowish color, in raised setting with beading round it and second plate below. thus [drawing]
468 (none) 1923,1110.169 (none) Gold finger ring. Flat hoop with raised rims and band of vertical hachures between plain bezel setting for a stone (missing).
460A (none) (none) B15242 [A-B] Gold earrings, a pair of: boat shaped originally inlaid with lapis lazuli between raised bands of granouillee work silver wires projecting from the base probably supported beads. . A only Phil. [drawing 1:1]
460B (none) 1923,1110.166 (none) [A-B] Gold earrings, a pair of: boat shaped originally inlaid with lapis lazuli between raised bands of granouillee work silver wires projecting from the base probably supported beads. . A only Phil. [drawing 1:1]
461 (none) (none) (none) Gold earring. (Companion not found) Boat shaped with twisted ends and bands of granouillee work on body. Photo 45. [drawing 1:1]
462 (none) (none) (none) Gold earring. (Companion not found) Boat shaped with coils round ends and triangles of granouillee work on the body. Photo 45. [drawing 1:1]
463A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Gold earrings, Pair of: plain. Photo 45. [drawing]
463B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Gold earrings Pair of: Plain. Photo 45. [drawing]
464 (none) (none) (none) Gold earring (companion not found). Plain. Photo 45. [drawing 1:1]
465 (none) (none) (none) Gold frame setting. For a stone, au jour: oval. Back plain: front has triangular holds bent over to hold stone: these and the rim decorated with granouillee work. Rings above and below for suspension. Photo no 45 [drawing 1:1]
469 (none) 1923,1110.174 (none) Chain of beads. Long beads [drawing] thus, alternately of carnelian and lapis lazuli, uniform in size. 24 lapis and 23 carneliean, and 1 larger lapis, 1 large carnelian and 2 large agate beads: all had golden cap at each end of very thin gold (3 caps are missing) Found loose and strung together: but all were found close together and probably formed a single string. Photo no 45.
51 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Consisting of agate lunar pendant, 13 gold beads (some decayed), 12 carnelian and 18 lapis beads (including one barrel 0.047 long) = from this beads through the center 13 are restrung in the original order. and 7 gold beads unstrung.
52 (none) 1923,1110.168 (none) Gold coil ring. The ends flattened and leaf shaped. [drawing 1:1]
53 (none) 1923,1110.170 (none) Gold mouth piece. Formed of thin gold plate cut to shape as below: [references drawing] The ends of the band pierced for stringing. [drawing]
54 (none) 1923,1110.190 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Engraved with scene of worshipper being introduced to a god standing in front of a gate.
55 (none) 1923,1110.191 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Broken in half and chipped down one side. Scene: 3 figures in a row advancing l[eft]. Found with beads round neck of body in larnax burial.
473 (none) (none) (none) Silver pot. Plain cylinder.
474 (none) (none) B15289 Silver pot. Plain cylinder. (This has been partially cleaned. Upper part broken in one place and roughly mended.) Phil. Photo no. 55
477 (none) 1923,1110.139 (none) Pair of silver saucers (?) plain shallow concave disks (possibly small cymbals?) Corroded together and onto nos. U.478, U.479, U.483. [drawing]
478 (none) 1923,1110.139 (none) Silver bracelet. Very small, as if for a child: plain rim of stout silver wire, ending in birds [crossed out] rams(?) heads. Fastened by corrosion on to U.477.
479 (none) 1923,1110.139 (none) Silver bracelet. Plain silver wire with terminals apparently thus [reference to drawing]. Fastened by corrosion to U.478
480 (none) (none) (none) Bronze bowl. Very thin metal, complete. [drawing] When found, U.473 and U.474 were inside it, lying on their sides and corroded onto it.
483 (none) 1923,1110.139 (none) Five bronze rings (bracelets?) Heads plain or thus [drawing]. Interlocked and corroded together and on to nos U.477, U.478 and U.479
472 (none) 1923,1110.137 (none) Silver vase. Broken on one side, but most of the fragments found. The sides are intentionally indented. Very thin metal in fair condition. [drawing 1:5]
475 (none) 1923,1110.138 (none) Silver pot. Plain cylinder. Photo no. 56

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