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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)
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.

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Antler - Bitumen - Bone - Leather - Reed - Shell - Textiles - Tooth - Wood - Plants