Description (Catalog Card): Bronze dagger. Thin metal : half piece pierced for fixing handle in the material good condition, hand broken but all complete [drawing 1:5]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): ES. Found under the top floor of room 1.     
Material (Catalog Card): Bronze3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 367mm, W. 35mm [L.365mm, W.40mm based on 1:1 drawing]      
U Number: 2870     
Object Type: Tools and Equipment >> Knives, Blades, Saws >> Knives and Swords      
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 03: 1924-1925      
Description (Modern): Copper alloy Blades with treble indented tang containing a rivet hole; chemically stripped.2     
Description (Modern): Copper alloy Blades with treble indented tang containing a rivet hole; chemically stripped.2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 119116     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1927,1003.1112     
Measurement (Thickness): 32     
Measurement (Length): 2832     
Measurement (Width): 322     Max
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 2870 | 1927,1003.111 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
ES The abbreviation ES almost certainly stands for Enunmah South, though it may also have to do with the building called Emuriana, referenced in a disturbed Kassite door socket found in the area. Legrain lists ES as the Egigpar of Nabonidus, SW end, and ES, or at least ESB did extend into the later remains of the Dublalmah, which at that time was part of the NeoBabylonian Giparu. The abbreviation ES first appeared in season one as a supplement to Trial Trench B (TTB.ES) when the trench was expanded to reveal the extents of the building found to be called E-nun-mah. In season 3, the abbreviation shortened simply to ES, used for the majority of the enunmah building. The Enunmah changed in layout and likely in usage through the many centuries of its existence. Initially a storage building called the ga-nun-mah, it seems to have been used as a temple, the e-nun-mah, in the Neo-Babylonian period. Some lists of excavation abbreviations equate ES with the Dublalmah site. This is because the southern Enunmah is just east of the Dublalmah. Area ESB is still more closely associated with the eastern edge of the dublalmah and likely into it. (none)
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Media: 2870 | 1927,1003.111 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
British Museum Photo Negatives British Museum Photo Negatives (none) (none) (none)
Field Photographs Field Photographs (none) (none) (none)
Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings Ur Excavations VIII; The Kassite Period and the period of the Assyrian Kings 1965 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:29 Page:78 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:29 Page:78 (none)
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