8617
| Conservation: | Coating of material placed to preserve pin. |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Silver hair ornament(?) [drawing]1 |
| Description (Archival): | Found with gold B 16775. Decayed. CBS Register: no field number. silver pin found with the gold ribbon B16775 (U.8612). decayed. Database says U.8617? but register has no number 1954 inventory of Royal Cemetery material has this note: U.8619? Silver pin found with B16775, but no entry of U number on card nor CBS number in field catalogue. Ur Inventory correctly identifies it as U.8617 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | TTE PG 337 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Silver2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 0122 W. 0037 |
| U Number: | 8617 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Headdress >> Hair Ornaments >> Hair Pins |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Clasps >> Pins |
| Description (Modern): | Silver pin. Stem is round. Flattened to a large head and curled at end. Missing tip. Type 5. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B16776 |
| Measurement (Diameter): | 2 |
| Measurement (X): | 95 |
| Measurement (X): | 42 |
| Measurement (Y): | 24 |
| Measurement (Z): | 1 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/337 | The earliest of the royal graves found, it was identified as such after the criteria for royal graves was established. This grave appeared in Trial Trench E and was not well mapped, but reportedly contained remains of a mudbrick wall that Woolley later interpreted as the destroyed tomb chamber associated with a death pit. | (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) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:53 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:53 | (none) |
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References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.