Description (Catalog Card): Vase. Limestone. White. Broken in 7 pieces. Part of rim missing. Broken and rivetted in antiquity and stuck together with bitumen. Rivet holes filled up with a white paste that may be burnt gypsum now called plaster of Paris. Portions of copper rivets still intact in rivet holes. Stone type XLV.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 358     
Material (Catalog Card): Limestone2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): Rim 022 Ht 008 Base 0095     
U Number: 8733     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Closed Forms >> Jars      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Description (Modern): Stone bowl with flared rim and flat base. Mended with rivets in antiquity. Broken and mended. Object mostly complete.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Sedimentary >> Limestone      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 87-28-14     
Measurement (X): 210     
Measurement (Y): 86     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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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:169 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:169 (none)
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