8630B | 1928,1009.190
| Description (Catalog Card): | Earrings. [A] One silver, [B] one apparently copper. Plain, 2 1/2 spiral coils of wire.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | TTE PG 337(A) |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Copper Alloy3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | diam 0028 |
| U Number: | 8630B |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Earrings >> Earrings |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Description (Modern): | Metal Spiral2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver 2 |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 120700 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.1904 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 9.502 |
| Measurement (X): | 28.102 |
| Measurement (Y): | 28.102 |
| Measurement (Z): | 10.002 |
| [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 |
| [4] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | PG/337 | The earliest of the royal graves found, it was identified as such after the criteria for royal graves was established. This grave appeared in Trial Trench E and was not well mapped, but reportedly contained remains of a mudbrick wall that Woolley later interpreted as the destroyed tomb chamber associated with a death pit. | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 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:39 Page:66 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:66 | (none) |
- 2 Media
