7951 | 1928,1009.174
| Description (Catalog Card): | Gold diadem. An oval strip of gold leaf with rounded ends: at each end a small hole; along the edge stamped dots. To this was attached a strip of similar thin gold, now in pieces, originally with a hole at each end for attachment to the oval front piece, but one end is missing.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | found round the skull with the oval part over the forehead PG 35 TTE |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Gold3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | [oval strip of gold leaf] L 0158 w 0031 Total L 041 width 0007 |
| U Number: | 7951 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Headdress >> Frontlets |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Description (Modern): | Diadem |
| Description (Modern): | Lozenge Fillet2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 120684 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.1744 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 4.202 |
| Measurement (X): | 159.002 |
| Measurement (Y): | 31.002 |
| Measurement (Z): | 0.302 |
| [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. |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/35 | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| 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:36 Page:186 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:186 | (none) |
- 3 Media
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Context
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTE >> Private Graves 1-100 >> PG/35
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.