17842A | 1932,1008.117
| Description (Catalog Card): | Beads. A mixed lot. 192 carnelian bugles. 56 carnelian double conoids, lentoids and barrels. 11 large carnelian double conoids and facetted lentoids. 421 carnelian rings. 81 larger carnelian rings. 41 glazed frit balls. 43 lapis lazuli, rings, bugles, ovoids, small mixed beads, apatite (?) quartzite, shell, agate and crystal.2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | Ziggurat NW. 1931. Found with U.17832. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lapis lazuli3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Crystal3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Quartzite3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Shell3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Agate3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Apatite3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Carnelian3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Frit3 |
| U Number: | 17842A1 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Description (Modern): | Necklace of barrel-shaped cornelian beads in graduated sizes. '...a mixed lot of carnelian tubes, double conoids, date-shaped and rings, facetted date-shaped and barrels, balls of glazed frit, lapis-lazuli tubes, rings and ovals and some mixed beads of apatite, quartizite, shell, agate and crystal.' UE IV, 187 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 123151 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1932,1008.1174 |
| [1] U number subdivided because object is conceptualized as one object, but may be in different museums. |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
| [4] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ziggurat Terrace | ZT | The excavation area abbreviation ZT stands for Ziggurat Terrace. It was used for any portion of the terrace on which the ziggurat stood, though other more specific abbreviations were also used. For example, the abbreviation PDW refers to the northern side of the terrace, west of the Great Nannar Courtyard (PD), and HD refers to the southern part of the terrace. Early references using the abbreviation ZT refer specifically to excavations along the terrace retaining wall itself. Later references, however, mention specific areas on top the terrace such as the so-called 'boat shrine.' The abbreviation also refers to deep clearing of the terrace fill, particularly on the north side in later excavation seasons, though the abbreviation Zig.31 was most often used for this. Woolley uncovered large areas of the retaining wall that supported the platform known as the ziggurat terrace. He found that it was decorated with large wall cones. These cones bore an inscription of Urnamma but there is evidence that the terrace in some form existed in the Early Dynastic period as well. The Urnamma retaining wall was slanted to support the terrace, was 1.7 meters high, 34 meters wide, and was decorated with 5-meter-wide buttresses about 4 meters apart. The inscribed cones dedicate the terrace to the moon god, Nanna, and show that it was called e-temen-ni-gur, which translates as, "house, foundation platform clad in terror." (Woolley read this e-temen-ni-il). | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Provisional Field Photo Album | Provisional Field Photo Album | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:41 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:41 | (none) |
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