12432B | 1929,1017.80
| Description (Catalog Card): | Tomb groups. With bodies. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --No. 3: [A] Whetstone. --No. 11: [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [C] Lapis and silver lentoid and bugle beads. --No. 13: [D] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [E] Facetted lapis bugles and some silver lentoid beads. --No. 14: [F-G] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings . [H] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 15: [I] Double conoid lapis beads. --No. 16: [J] Very small lapis ball beads. --No.17: [K] Large facetted lapis lentoids. --No. 18: [L] Lapis double conoid beads. --No. 19: [M] Lapis lentoids and some silver beads. --No. 20: [N-O] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [P] Lapis lentoid beads. --No. 21: [Q] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 22: [R] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. [S] Facetted lapis lentoid beads. [T] Cylinder seal, white shell, decayed (not kept) --No. 23: [U] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [V] Lapis and silver small lentoid beads and a few lapis balls.2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 1157. From the death pit. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Silver4 |
| U Number: | 12432B |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Earrings >> Earrings |
| Season Number: | 07: 1928-1929 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Rings 1 |
| Description (Modern): | Earring |
| Description (Modern): | Metal Spiral3 |
| Description (Modern): | Silver ring; spirals of wire.1 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 122273 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1929,1017.80 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 5.603 |
| Measurement (X): | 32.503 |
| Measurement (Y): | 32.503 |
| Measurement (Z): | 6.403 |
| [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] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/1157 | PG/1157 is a "death pit of the poorer sort" (UE2 p.168) but Woolley was uncertain whether to connect PG/1151 and PG/1156 above it into a single royal grave of the sort of complicated structure seen in PG/1050 and PG/1054. Both PG/1151 and PG/1156 were coffin burials with minor high-end materials and the PG/1151 coffin had a lyre leaning against it (recovered in plaster). Beneath the coffins was a shaft filled with plano-convex bricks. At its base was a layer of pottery and then 58 skeletons. Woolley could identify no chamber with this death pit and proposed that it had been destroyed; he eventually decided the two coffins above were likely to be intrusive and unrelated to PG/1157 but published them together. | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (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:53 Page:56 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:53 Page:56 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:53 Page:57 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:53 Page:57 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p051 | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p051 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p053 | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p053 | (none) |
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Context
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Private Graves 1101-1200 >> PG/1157
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.