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  • U Number : 16216
    Museum Number (BM Registration Number) : 1931,1010.264

    Description (Catalog Card) : Mountings, gold-plated. Probably from a small stone box(?) 12 in all. The gold is a thin strip mounted on silver rods, from which project at the back short pegs for attachment - the gold is apparently soldered onto the silver, but the edges are turned down over it for better attachment. With these were nails of plain gold or of copper with gold heads; and some minute gold beads for fastening the edges of gold casing: 2 plain gold; 10 gold-headed, 4 beads; & a few fragments of gold leaf. BurSin NW man.p.3.

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Ur Online

Ur Online offers an insight into the unique site of Ur, near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, and one of the largest and most important cities of ancient Mesopotamia. Excavations at Ur between 1922 and 1934 by Sir Leonard Woolley, jointly sponsored by the British Museum and the Penn Museum, uncovered Ur’s famous ziggurat complex, densely packed private houses, and the spectacular Royal Graves. Half the finds from Woolley’s excavations are housed in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, with the other half shared equally between the British Museum and the Penn Museum. Through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation, lead underwriter, the Kowalski Family Foundation and the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, Ur Online preserves digitally and invites in-depth exploration of the finds and records from this remarkable site. Learn more about the project.

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