Description (Catalog Card): [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 254 TTE     
Material (Catalog Card): Shale2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): Size of plaques 0019x0003 [L. 0019, W. 0019, Th. 0003] Diam. of Disks 0024 Thickness 0002     
U Number: 8454G     
Object Type: Games and Music >> Gaming Piece 1     
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Museum: The National Museum of Iraq      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Sedimentary >> Shale      
Museum Number (IM Number): IM 3896     
Notes: All of U8454 A-K is likely the remains of a game board and pieces all collected under the same IM number: IM 3896.     
[1] Disk
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:38 Page:160 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:38 Page:160 (none)
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