Description (Catalog Card): [A-D] Copper spear butts (?) 4 The lower part is solid and seems to be cast: the upper part was made hollow and open down one side: the wooden shaft was inserted, the open sides brought together over it, so as to overlap and then secured by copper nails driven through the wood. [drawing]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 777 NE Chamber     
Material (Catalog Card): Wood3     
Material (Catalog Card): Copper Alloy3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L from 014 to 019     
U Number: 9963A     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Armor and Weaponry >> Spears and Lances >> Spearheads/Lanceheads      
Season Number: 06: 1927-1928      
Description (Modern): Copper alloy lance-head, with two internal cross rivets, at a distance from each other.2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy      
Material: Organic Remains >> Wood      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 121602     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1928,1010.331     
Measurement (Diameter): 352     Max
Measurement (Length): 2242     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 9963A | 1928,1010.331 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: 9963A | 1928,1010.331 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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:43 Page:234 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:234 (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:235 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:235 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p194 Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p194 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p195 Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p195 (none)
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