Description (Catalog Card): Frontlet. An ellipse of gold plate engraved with an 8-pointed star of the conventional type: at each end a wire for attachment, one ending in a loop, the other in a wooden button.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): Plaque L. 011 width 0055     
U Number: 11906     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Headdress >> Fillet/Frontlet/Brim      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIB      
Description (Modern): Gold ornament; wire and leaf all made from one piece of gold and clearly fabricated by hammering; incised and leaved rosette; twisted wires for fastening attached.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1929,1017.47     
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 1222411     
Measurement (Length): 1264     
Measurement (Width): 544     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley
[4] Leaf

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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)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:51 Page:18 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:51 Page:18 (none)
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