Description (Catalog Card): Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054 C4     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli5     
Material (Catalog Card): Copper Alloy5     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 225mm     
U Number: 11738     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Clasps >> Pins      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIB      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian 1     
Description (Modern): Copper alloy toggle pin with lapis lazuli ball head, hole in shank near head, the point broken off.     
Description (Modern): Straight Pin; Lapis Ball3     
Description (Modern): Copper alloy toggle pin with lapis lazuli ball head, hole in shank near head, the point broken off.1     
Description (Modern): Copper alloy toggle pin with lapis lazuli ball head, hole in shank near head, the point broken off.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver 3     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1929,1017.561     
Measurement (Diameter): 7     
Measurement (Diameter): 19     
Measurement (Weight): 28.703     
Measurement (Length): 1201     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[4] NW Corner
[5] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
PG1054 Field Notes PG1054 Field Notes 1922-1934 Woolley et al (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:50 Page:93 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:93 (none)
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