8538 | 1928,1009.406 - UrOnline

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Description (Catalog Card):	Shell. Cut to form an open spouted bowl or ladle. Above the opening is a crude carving of a bird's head, the eye inlaid with lapis lazuli.¹
Find Context (Catalog Card):	PG 265
Material (Catalog Card):	Shell²
Material (Catalog Card):	Lapis lazuli²

U Number:	8538
Museum:	British Museum
Object Type:	Tools and Equipment >> Miscellany and Unidentified >> Ladles and spoons
Season Number:	05: 1926-1927
Description (Modern):	Shell
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli
Material:	Organic Remains >> Shell
Museum Number (BM Big Number):	120861
Museum Number (BM Registration Number):	1928,1009.406³

[1] Woolley's description

[2] Material as described by Woolley

[3] Data collected by British Museum research team.

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
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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:243	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:38 Page:243	(none)

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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTF >> PG/265

References

Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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