Technique: Manufacture >> Molded >> Casting 1     
Description (Catalog Card): 3 Copper Vessels. (A) Shallow dish, circular with narrow trough spout; (B) similar; (C) A strainer, with handle (broken)3     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054 (dome: 16)     
Material (Catalog Card): Copper4     
Measurement (Catalog Card): A. diam 015 L.0065 C. Diam 015 Handle L. 0055     
U Number: 11917     
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Dishes and Plates      
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIB      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIA 2     
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Strainers >> Strainers and Colanders 1     
Description (Modern): UE 2 p. 107: '...a group of two copper spouted bowls, Type 19, and a copper strainer of Type 96...' Merlin: 'Description Group of a copper alloy strainer and two shallow lipped saucers, rusted together. Dimensions Diameter: 15.87 centimetres Weight: 453 grammes'     
Description (Modern): One circular copper alloy strainer and two circular shallow-lipped saucers, stacked and rusted together.1     
Description (Modern): A copper alloy strainer and two shallow lipped saucers corroded together; both saucers are spouted though the spout from the upper saucer is broken; the strainer's handle is also broken.1     
Description (Modern): A copper alloy strainer and two shallow lipped saucers corroded together; both saucers are spouted though the spout from the upper saucer is broken; the strainer's handle is also broken.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1929,1017.632     
Measurement (Diameter): 1455     
Measurement (Length): 21.21     Whole Object
Measurement (Width): 15.31     Whole Object
Measurement (Depth): 2.221     
Measurement (Weight): Top Saucer1     
Notes: Not subdivided into A-C because the vessels are corroded together with one museum number.      
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Hermann Müller-Karpe, Prähistorische Bronzefunde (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1983), No.46, p.31.
[3] Woolley's description
[4] Material as described by Woolley
[5] Topmost saucer

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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)
Metallgefäße im Iraq I Metallgefäße im Iraq I 1993 Müller-Karpe, Michael (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:29 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:51 Page:29 (none)
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