MASCA Metallurgy Testing: Sample number unknown.      
Description (Catalog Card): Group: [A] Gold hair ribbon. [B.1-.2] Large gold lunate earring. [C and H] Gold flower rosettes on silver stems. [D] Wreath of gold leaves on lapis and carnelian beads. [E] Necklace of gold and lapis triangles. [F] Necklace of lapis and silver double conoid beads. [G] Silver pin with lapis ball head [Type] VI B.1     
Description (Archival): Silver pin with lapis head. Type VI B. CBS Register: silver pin, with lapis head. length 140 mm     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1237. No. 30. New 49.     
Material (Catalog Card): Silver3     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli3     
U Number: 12388G     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Clasps >> Pins      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Description (Modern): Silver pin with lapis ball head. Tip and head missing, lapis ball intact. Broken in two, through hole drilled near head. Type 7. three holes for modern-day testing.     
Description (Modern): Curved Pin; Lapis Ball2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 30-12-446     
Measurement (Diameter): 154     
Measurement (Weight): 16.502     
Measurement (Length): 91.0     
Measurement (Thickness): 5.0     
Measurement (X): 92     
Measurement (X): 144     
Measurement (X): 90.002     
Measurement (Y): 5     
Measurement (Y): 5.002     
Measurement (Z): 5     
[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
[4] Lapis

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Media: 12388G | 30-12-446 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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:53 Page:13 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:53 Page:13 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p171 Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p171 (none)
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