Description (Catalog Card): Comb. Ivory. Most of the teeth broken off short, only the end guard left to show their original length. On both sides of the flat upper part, an engraving of a bull set in a frame of lines and dotted circles. On one side the bull has his tail down. on the other above his back: otherwise, the 2 engravings are similar and show the bull with head lowered to strike. Very fine Phoenician work.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): below the Nebuchadnezzar floor     
Material (Catalog Card): Ivory2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 60mm, H. 50mm     
U Number: 7902     
Object Type: Personal Grooming >> Combs      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Description (Modern): Comb     
Material: Organic Remains >> Tooth >> Ivory      
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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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)
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:138 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:138 (none)
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