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U Number:
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16429DD1
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Object Type:
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Dress and Personal Ornaments >>
Miscellaneous Pieces >>
Beads
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Season Number:
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09: 1930-1931
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Museum:
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British Museum
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Description (Modern):
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Description
Barrel-shaped black stone bead; pierced lengthways.
Dimensions
Length: 0.94 inches
Width: 0.31 inches2
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Description (Modern):
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Polished brown/black material, fine grained possibly from a horn core, showing scratches from manufacture. One side flattened with heavy scratching and could be a base, but entirety pierced by large hole through long axis, 3mm wide, thus likely a bead.
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Material:
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Inorganic Remains >>
Stones and Minerals
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Museum Number (BM Registration Number):
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1932,1008.59
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Museum Number (BM Big Number):
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128464
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Notes:
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There are weights in British Museum records that are associated with the field number U.16429 but for which no field cards exist. Perceived as duplicates, Woolley frequently gathered together similar objects (especially ones brought in by workers from outside Ur) under one number and it could well be that he assigned more weights to this field number than he recorded.
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Notes:
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Because of the longitudinal piercing, this is unlikely to be a weight; however, it may have once been one and been reused, and its potential association with U.16429 would indicate it had been thought of or cataloged as a weight at one point.
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