Description (Catalog Card): Head Ornaments. (A) Quantity of gold ribbon., (B) Gold wreath, leaf pendants with double string of lapis and carnelian beads. (C) [.1-.2] Pair of large gold lunate earrings. (D)Silver pin with lapis head. (E) Silver hair ornament, 3-pronged, with rosette finials of gold, lapis and shell. (F) Double conoid beads, gold and lapis (see field notes) (G) Beads, lapis and silver (H) [H and L] 2 silver earrings, plain wire spirals [I] [Not assigned] (J)Cockleshells containing paint. (K) Silver pin, rounded head, L. 150mm1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 789 Burial B     
Material (Catalog Card): Shell     
Material (Catalog Card): Pigment3     
U Number: 10584J     
Object Type: Personal Grooming >> Cosmetic Containers >> Cosmetic Shells      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 06: 1927-1928      
Description (Modern): Cosmetic Shell; Black Pigment2     
Material: Organic Remains >> Shell      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Pigment      
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B16999     
Measurement (Weight): 14.602     
Measurement (X): 34.002     
Measurement (Y): 43.002     
Measurement (Z): 16.002     
Notes: UE 2 records a stone bowl with this assemblage. p.440     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia 2008 Baadsgaard, Aubrey (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:46 Page:51 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:46 Page:51 (none)
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