791 | 1923,1110.144

Description (Catalog Card): Glass bowl. Fragment of in heavy molded glass in opaque white and yellow on translucent pale green. Section [referencing drawing]. [drawing 1:1]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): T.T.B 5, set into the Nebuchadnezzar pavement / E-nun-mah room 5     
Material (Catalog Card): Glass2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): [L.65mm, W.42mm based on 1:1 drawing]     
U Number: 791     
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Bowls      
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 01: 1922-1923      
Culture/Period: Neo-Assyrian      
Description (Modern): Fragment of glass bowl; flat and broad rim, convex sides; body perhaps slightly deeper than a hemisphere; quality of glass is very good, very few bubbles; cast by the lost-wax technique; finished by grinding and polishing; colourless with very light greenish tinge; surface badly damaged by light brownish, incipient weathering layer, which has partly flaked-off and caused serious pitting.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Glass and Related Material      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 116543     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1923,1110.144     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Room 5 | TTB.10 (none) (none)
TTB.5 (none) (none)
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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:24 Page:41 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:24 Page:41 (none)
Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum 1985 Barag, Dan (none)
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
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Context

Ur >> Enunmah | TTB | ES >> Room 5 | TTB.10

Excavation Context: Ur >> Enunmah | TTB | ES >> TTB >> TTB.5

References

Barag, Dan. (1985) Catalogue of Western Asiatic glass in the British Museum, London: British Museum Publications.

Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max. (1962) Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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