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Description (Catalog Card):	Statuette. White calcite. Of a woman, standing with hands clasped on her breast, wearing the kaukanes. The figure is carved in the round but the back is almost flat and the back of the head, which is missing, seems to have been added in plaster: it is carved from a slab of stone the back of which is the back of the statute. The eyes are inlaid with shell and lapis lazuli, and a strip of lapis lazuli forms the fillet across the forehead and down each side of the face: the eyebrows were in black paste (which came away in powder with the dirt) and there was black paint on the hair and in the grooves of the kaukanes: none of this could be preserved. The left side is stained green by the corrosion of the axe which lay against it. The stone is decayed in places and has run in blisters which interfere with the modelling of the face (right side) , right arm and hair. Some of the lapis inlay had been lost in antiquity. The figure is made in two pieces morticed together.¹
Find Context (Catalog Card):	B36
Material (Catalog Card):	Shell²
Material (Catalog Card):	Lapis lazuli²
Material (Catalog Card):	Calcite²
Measurement (Catalog Card):	H. 255mm

U Number:	19037
Object Type:	Figural Objects >> Figurines >> Anthropomorphic
Museum:	The National Museum of Iraq
Season Number:	12: 1933-1934
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Calcite Group >> Calcite
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli
Material:	Organic Remains >> Shell
Museum Number (IM Number):	IM 19822

[1] Woolley's description

[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PJB/36	(none)	(none)

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Media: 19037 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media	Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
	Provisional Field Photo Album	Provisional Field Photo Album	(none)	(none)	(none)
	Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods	Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods	1955	Woolley, L.	(none)
	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:74 Page:316	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:74 Page:316	(none)
	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:74 Page:317	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:74 Page:317	(none)

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Excavation Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> PJ >> Pit X >> PJB >> PJB/36

References

Provisional Field Photo Album, .

Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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