Organic Remains
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11136 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. Partly obliterated. Bearded bulls rampant. Inscribed: A-ni-ta (?). |
| 11148 | (none) | (none) | B17598 | Cylinder Seal. Shell. Poor condition. Present: scene: 2 figures advancing towards a seated god. Attributes: Crescent moon and horns standing on 2 feet. [drawing] | |
| 11154 | (none) | (none) | B16692 | Gold Ostrich Shell. Natural size, open at the top to make a vase: Decorated on the base and round rim with incrustation work in shell, lapis, and red stone. All the incrustation had fallen off, but has been partially restored on the analogy of the silver shell and of the real ostrich shells from the same grave. | |
| 11155 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Ostrich Shell. Originally decorated on base and round the rim with incrustation in shell, lapis, and red stone. All ornament gone: the Shell much distorted and broken. |
| 11159 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell. Much decayed. Visible only remains of a scene of rampant animals. |
| 11162A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Gaming-board. Set in silver. Shell plaques engraved with lapis borders engraved with animal scenes, except for 2 in rosettes. Only part of it was found, giving in all: 13 plaques of which 6 were still in their setting and 7 loose: these have been reset, those in original order in the top 2 rows, the rest below, and one rosette piece omitted. Orig. W. 120mm(?); plaques 32 x 40mm; 35mm square. With this must go: (B) Gaming pieces, of white shell, square with engraved scenes, in all 9 and one half piece. (C) Gaming pieces, circular, of balck shale with 5 white dots, diam. 25mm, 3 in all. (D) one white disk with blue spot. (E) Small balls of lapis, 8 in all. (F) 23 small white balls (these are perhaps counters)? (G) 3 lapis dice, of usual solid triangle with inlay dots at 2 points. (H) 6 square men, black and white spots. (NB: Some of the gaming pieces B & C were found in Chamber B.) [I] [Not assigned] (J) [J, L-M] 3 slender rods, square in section, of ivory (?) with engraved patterns on one edge and concentric circles on the other. L. 65mm, W. 4mm (K) in the inside of the board (a box) was a complete set of men, 7 white and 7 black, the former with animal scenes, the latter with 5 white dots. |
| 11162B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Gaming-board. Set in silver. Shell plaques engraved with lapis borders engraved with animal scenes, except for 2 in rosettes. Only part of it was found, giving in all: 13 plaques of which 6 were still in their setting and 7 loose: these have been reset, those in original order in the top 2 rows, the rest below, and one rosette piece omitted. Orig. W. 120mm(?); plaques 32 x 40mm; 35mm square. With this must go: (B) Gaming pieces, of white shell, square with engraved scenes, in all 9 and one half piece. (C) Gaming pieces, circular, of balck shale with 5 white dots, diam. 25mm, 3 in all. (D) one white disk with blue spot. (E) Small balls of lapis, 8 in all. (F) 23 small white balls (these are perhaps counters)? (G) 3 lapis dice, of usual solid triangle with inlay dots at 2 points. (H) 6 square men, black and white spots. (NB: Some of the gaming pieces B & C were found in Chamber B.) [I] [Not assigned] (J) [J, L-M] 3 slender rods, square in section, of ivory (?) with engraved patterns on one edge and concentric circles on the other. L. 65mm, W. 4mm (K) in the inside of the board (a box) was a complete set of men, 7 white and 7 black, the former with animal scenes, the latter with 5 white dots. |
| 11162J | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Gaming-board. Set in silver. Shell plaques engraved with lapis borders engraved with animal scenes, except for 2 in rosettes. Only part of it was found, giving in all: 13 plaques of which 6 were still in their setting and 7 loose: these have been reset, those in original order in the top 2 rows, the rest below, and one rosette piece omitted. Orig. W. 120mm(?); plaques 32 x 40mm; 35mm square. With this must go: (B) Gaming pieces, of white shell, square with engraved scenes, in all 9 and one half piece. (C) Gaming pieces, circular, of balck shale with 5 white dots, diam. 25mm, 3 in all. (D) one white disk with blue spot. (E) Small balls of lapis, 8 in all. (F) 23 small white balls (these are perhaps counters)? (G) 3 lapis dice, of usual solid triangle with inlay dots at 2 points. (H) 6 square men, black and white spots. (NB: Some of the gaming pieces B & C were found in Chamber B.) [I] [Not assigned] (J) [J, L-M] 3 slender rods, square in section, of ivory (?) with engraved patterns on one edge and concentric circles on the other. L. 65mm, W. 4mm (K) in the inside of the board (a box) was a complete set of men, 7 white and 7 black, the former with animal scenes, the latter with 5 white dots. |
| 11167A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-E] Shell Roundels (5) with concentric circles & central hole. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11174 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell. 2 groups of fighting animals and a small panel with inscription. Inscription: e-zi (d) (cf. U.11107). |
| 11175B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seals. Shell. [A} A good deal decayed: design of fighting animals. At one end the hole is of normal size: at the other end it is much enlarged and into it is fitted [B] a second cylinder, engraved with rope-net pattern and a bull. |
| 11176 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. Very badly decayed. |
| 11178 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. Completely decayed, but apparently with large rampant animals and an inscription of which only one sign is legible. [drawing] |
| 11222 | (none) | (none) | B16745 | Shell Plaque. half. Silhouetted: a half-human monster fighting with a bull. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 11223 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 2 lapis: lentoids, facetted, one broken. Wood (?) lentoid, 2 carnelian rings, also one silver earring. |
| 11230D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head Ornament. (A) Gold ribbon. (B) Wreath of carnelian & lapis lazuli beads with gold mulberry leaf pendants. (C) [C.1-.2] Pair large lunate gold earrings. (D) Silver head ornament with inlaid rosette finials-gold, silver & shell. (E) [E and K] 2 silver pins with bent heads capped by a lapis ball head. Type VI. (F) Necklace of fluted lapis ball beads. (G) Frontlet of beads in 7 rows, gold, bugle, carnelian ring beads, lapis bugles. (H) Necklace of lapis & gold triangles. (I) Necklace of alternate lapis & silver double conoids. (J) Miniature vase of light drab clay, part of rim missing. |
| 11404 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. Subject: 2 groups each composed of a man fighting a lion and a gazelle (?) respectively: the latter scene decayed. Carinated type. |
| 11405 | 30-12-39 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. Presentation scene: Seated goddess: before her a female worshipper introduced by a goddess. | |
| 11428 | 30-12-51 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell much decayed. | |
| 11440A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Cylinder seal & [B] pin. Copper pin, slender: To which was attached (by a string) a cylinder seal of white shell, with scene of fighting animals; hopelessly decayed on one side. |
| 11443 | 30-12-49 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell, much decayed. Inscription apparently: Sagdudu. HC..5. | |
| 11444 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A few small beads of lapis, carnelian and shell, found together but not in order. |
| 11450 | 30-12-496 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small, 1 of gold leaf over bitumen, lapis, silver and carnelian. | |
| 11459 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Wooden comb. Fragments of |
| 11477 | 30-12-465 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian and lapis, bugles & lentoids; a few ball-heads of dark wood (ebony?) most of which fell to pieces. For order see Field Notes. |