17813A | 1932,1008.9
| Description (Catalog Card): | Group. From one burial. (A) [A and K-L] 3 gold frontlets. (B) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (C) [C and M] Two gold hair-rings, spirally coiled with lunate ends, with one of them [N] a silver ring. (D) Beads: a string of very small fluted gold balls and carnelian balls and one very thin lapis bugle with gold caps. (E) Beads: gold balls, agate, carnelian, marble and jasper; long bugles, flattened lentoids, disks and lentoids. (F) [F and O] Two gold bracelets, of thin gold bent over copper wire. (G) Silver bracelet, plain wire. (H) [H and I] Copper bracelets, 2, plain wire. (J) Copper axe, thus: [reference to drawing] a copy of the old type but not cast: hammered and the socket made by bending. Type S10. [drawing]1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 1848. Burial R. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Gold3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 140mm, W. 45mm |
| U Number: | 17813A |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Headdress >> Fillet/Frontlet/Brim |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Description (Modern): | Frontlet |
| Description (Modern): | Oval Fillet2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 123125 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1932,1008.9 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 2.082 |
| Measurement (X): | 144.002 |
| Measurement (Y): | 43.002 |
| Measurement (Z): | 0.602 |
| [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 |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Burial R | (none) | (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:70 Page:10 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:10 | (none) |
- 3 Media
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Context
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Private Graves 1801-1850 >> PG/1848 >> Burial R
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.