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) |
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![]() | 16636 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone Pin. Broken in 3 pieces. Oval in section. Upper portion of stem perforated for suspension, 3 incised grooves decorate upper portion of stem. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 16674A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 cylinder seals. Bitumen. (A) Has 3 standing females figures. (B) Has 2 standing female figures. One end of B missing. |
![]() | 16674B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 cylinder seals. Bitumen. (A) Has 3 standing females figures. (B) Has 2 standing female figures. One end of B missing. |
![]() | 16700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell. Cut as a lamp, with trough spout. Type found in Jemdet Nasr, 1st Dynasty, and Sargonid graves. Here found in a Larsa grave. |
![]() | 16738A | (none) | 1931,1010.91 | (none) | Puzuzu heads. [A] One shell, [B] one frit. Both pierced at top of head for suspension. |
![]() | 16742A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 miniature shell plaques. Engraved with design of a bird. (A) roughly oval-one end broken away. [drawing 1:1] (B) Roughly circular. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 16742B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 miniature shell plaques. Engraved with design of a bird. (A) roughly oval-one end broken away. [drawing 1:1] (B) Roughly circular. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 16777A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-F] 6 shell rings. |
![]() | 16788 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene before seated god. Below: 3 geese. |
![]() | 16800 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White shell amulet. In form of a duck with a star engraved on the base. |
![]() | 16806 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell cylinder seal.? |
16809 | (none) | 1933,1013.52 | (none) | Shell cylinder seal (not pierced). ^dAdad-ba(?)-ni(?) ,dumu Nu-ur- ^dAdad... | |
![]() | 16927C | (none) | 1931,1010.232 | (none) | Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering] |
![]() | 16960 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Limestone statue of a seated goddess. She wears a long flounced garment reaching to the feet; hands clasped below breasts. The hair is confined by a plain heavy bandeau and falls in a square mass behind the back with a lock over each shoulder. The eyes are inlaid with shell and lapis, and the eyebrows with lapis. Very coarse ugly work. |
![]() | 17020A | (none) | 1931,1010.314 | (none) | [A-C] 3 lance (?) heads. Iron. 1 complete, 1 broken in 2 pieces, top of one missing all traces of wooden hafting. Tips only circular in section, rest rectangulare in section. Types approximately thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] |
![]() | 17048 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Tip missing. [drawing 1:1] |
17068A | (none) | 1931,1010.301 | (none) | [A-B] Chisels. Copper. A pair. On one side of B remains in copper of an open work sheath - trellis work type. ? | |
![]() | 17077 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell plaque. Engraved with 2 bulls hooves. Inlay. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17090 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian lentoids, balls, discoids, scaraboids. Amethystine quartz scaraboids. Lapis lazuli discoid, scaraboid. Glass paste, yellow, balls, lentoids and 1 miniature puzuzu head. Carnelian pieces of inlay consisting of round lapis centers in a mother of pearl circular backing set in a circular steatite backing. |
![]() | 17109 | (none) | 1931,1010.84 | (none) | Amulet. Shell in form of a human hand [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17115 | (none) | 1931,1010.85 | (none) | Amulet. Mother-of-pearl. In the form of a human hand (thumb broken off) |
![]() | 17122 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell handle for knife or stiletto with incised pattern and hole at end as if for a gilt stud. |
![]() | 17139 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory kohl-pot in the form of a lotus carved and with lines inlaid with black. In very bad condition. Broken and laminated. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17140 | (none) | 1931,1010.191 | (none) | Kohl tube. Bone. Lathe-turned. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17316 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. White. 2 heroes fighting a rampant lion. |