Description (Catalog Card): Gold Ostrich Shell. Natural size, open at the top to make a vase: Decorated on the base and round rim with incrustation work in shell, lapis, and red stone. All the incrustation had fallen off, but has been partially restored on the analogy of the silver shell and of the real ostrich shells from the same grave.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 779 Chamber B.     
Material (Catalog Card): Ostrich Shell3     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli3     
Material (Catalog Card): Red Stone3     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 130mm, D. 120mm     
[1] Hermann Müller-Karpe, Prähistorische Bronzefunde (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1983), No.1496, p.225, pl.138, 155A, 181.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Metallgefäße im Iraq I Metallgefäße im Iraq I 1993 Müller-Karpe, Michael (none)
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:48 Page:92 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:48 Page:92 (none)
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