8000 | 1928,1009.184
| Description (Catalog Card): | Three silver cockle shells. One inside the other. The inner one shows signs of a red substance perhaps a pigment. Natural size.3 |
| Description (Archival): | Cosmetic Shell; Blue Pigment4 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 55 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Silver6 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | (diam c. 004) |
| U Number: | 80001 |
| Object Type: | Personal Grooming >> Cosmetic Containers >> Cosmetic Shells |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Culture/Period: | Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIB 2 |
| Description (Modern): | Four silver cockle-shells; corroded together; mineralised threads of woven wrapping.5 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 120694 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.184 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 21.104 |
| Measurement (X): | 39.004 |
| Measurement (Y): | 43.004 |
| Measurement (Z): | 33.004 |
| [1] This U number was not subdivided because the objects are corroded to each other. |
| [2] Müller-Karpe |
| [3] Woolley's description |
| [4] Aubrey Baadsgaard, Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008). |
| [5] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
| [6] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/55 | (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) |
| Metallgefäße im Iraq I | Metallgefäße im Iraq I | 1993 | Müller-Karpe, Michael | (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:235 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:235 | (none) |
- 4 Media