Description (Catalog Card): Copper Dagger With central rib and short rounded tang and six rivets Type 3 (new)1     
Description (Archival): Dagger2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 777 NE Chamber     
Material (Catalog Card): Copper Alloy4     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L 022 width 0042     
U Number: 9961     
Object Type: Tools and Equipment >> Knives, Blades, Saws >> Knives and Swords      
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 06: 1927-1928      
Description (Modern): Copper alloy dagger with central rib to Blades, six handle rivets and the remains of the handle.3     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 121581     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1928,1010.310     
Measurement (Weight): 88.702     
Measurement (Thickness): 33     Blades
Measurement (Length): 2203     Blades
Measurement (Width): 413     Blades
Measurement (X): 220.002     
Measurement (Y): 40.002     
Measurement (Z): 4.002     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[3] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[4] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 9961 | 1928,1010.310 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
PG/777 A built chamber tomb with a collapsed dome, it had been robbed in antiquity but some artifacts remained along the walls. The collapsed roof of this tomb was first seen in Trial Trench E but the grave was fully excavated after the trial trenches had been opened into a larger area. This led to the discovery of a small trenched area next to the chamber that contained three skeletons, and an approach or dromos that contained another. These Woolley took to be the guards of the tomb in a small 'death pit'. There were two chambers inside the tomb, and the outer held the remains of four more people, possibly servants, while the inner may have held the royal personage. (none)
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Media: 9961 | 1928,1010.310 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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:43 Page:232 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:232 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p200 Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p200 (none)
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