Description (Catalog Card): Statue. White limestone; broken in half but complete. The eyes inlaid with lapis, brown-painted shell and steatite, the nose of plaster, yellow paint on top of head. Female figure, standing rigid, the hands clasped in front of the body; she wears a long garment with 7 pleated flounces reaching to the ground, the arms hiden by the second flounce with seems to be a short cape. Two long tresses of hair hang down in front over the shoulders, the rest of the hair hangs down behind in a heavy square-cut netting. A bandeau passes across the forehead and also it rises a flat sharp-edged disk marked by criss-cross lines. It is painted yellow & may represent the (early) gold ribbon headdress; in the top of it at the back are 3 holes in which must have been stuck hed ornaments after the fashion of the (early) comos. The ears are pierced for metal ear0ring. The nose (perhaps because the original had been broken off(?) was made separately; there was a deep slot to fasten it on; one half of the nose modeled in plaster (out in bad condition & mishappen) was found and has been provisionally attacked. The figure is extraordinarily ugly, and the workmanship is flaccid and mechanical.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): A. H. Lying on the pavement of the main court of the PaSag chapel.      
Material (Catalog Card): Limestone2     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli2     
Material (Catalog Card): Shell2     
Material (Catalog Card): Steatite2     
Material (Catalog Card): Plaster2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 55mm     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
No. 1 Church Lane Off the corner of Church Lane and Straight Street. This house is combined with Straight Street 1, rooms 1,2,3. , The chapel occupied a corner site fronting on Carfax; the main door of the chapel proper opened on Church Lane and a subsidiary entrance which served the little rooms probably appropriated to the officiating priests opened on Straight Street. Such changes as were made in the building during its existence did not involve any raising of its floor level; from the beginning this was well above the street. The walls, most of which had suffered severely, were of later date, constructionally, than those of the neighbouring house, No. 3 Church Lane, onto which they abutted. (none)
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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:166 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:65 Page:166 (none)
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Excavation Context: Ur >> AH Site | AH >> Church Lane >> No. 1 Church Lane


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