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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)
17762 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Incomplete; introductory scene, standing deity; 2 lines of inscription. -TU- DAM UR-URU(U)(?) -tu- wife of Ururudu HC 1931 / 3
17797 32-40-345 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]
17803B (none) 1932,1008.22 (none) Group. From One burial. (A) One gold earring, small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads, two strings, one of very small carnelian balls alternating with very small fluted gold balls and gold double conoids. A second string of lapis lazuli and mother of pearl or shell flat lozenge-shaped beads pierced through the middle of the flat sides.
17803C (none) 1932,1008.115 (none) Group. From One burial. (A) One gold earring, small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads, two strings, one of very small carnelian balls alternating with very small fluted gold balls and gold double conoids. A second string of lapis lazuli and mother of pearl or shell flat lozenge-shaped beads pierced through the middle of the flat sides.
17811D 32-40-325 (none) (none) Group. From one burial. (A) [A, E-I] Six gold earrings, small hollow lunate type, worn in sets of 3 in each earrings, small hollow lunate type, worn in sets of 3 in each ear. (B) Gold finger ring, thin metal with edges bent inwards to form a ribbed hoop. [drawing] (C) Beads: lapis diamonds, gold double conoids, silver disks, carnelian and steatite lentoids. (D) Cylinder seal, shell: hunter and lion and 2 columns of inscription.
17813E 32-40-227 (none) (none) Group. From one burial. (A) [A and K-L] 3 gold frontlets. (B) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (C) [C and M] Two gold hair-rings, spirally coiled with lunate ends, with one of them [N] a silver ring. (D) Beads: a string of very small fluted gold balls and carnelian balls and one very thin lapis bugle with gold caps. (E) Beads: gold balls, agate, carnelian, marble and jasper; long bugles, flattened lentoids, disks and lentoids. (F) [F and O] Two gold bracelets, of thin gold bent over copper wire. (G) Silver bracelet, plain wire. (H) [H and I] Copper bracelets, 2, plain wire. (J) Copper axe, thus: [reference to drawing] a copy of the old type but not cast: hammered and the socket made by bending. Type S10. [drawing]
17815E (none) (none) (none) Group. From one burial. (A) Four gold frontlets oval type with tag ends, a good deal damaged and broken [A, G-I]. (B) A length of gold hair ribbon. (C) Gold finger ring of flat make wide edges bent inwards to make a ribbed hoop. (D) A pair of gold earrings of the small hollow lunate type, interlaced. [D and J] (E) Cylinder seal, white shell, introduction scene with seated goddess, crescent, 2 standing figures and tree. cf. U.1979 and U.1987. (F) Beads: small gold balls, plain and fluted, with carnelian and lapis lentoids: gold and carnelian diamonds: long carnelian bugles, carnelian lentoids, agate beads, lapis lentoid and gold balls.
17856 32-40-239 (none) (none) Beads. Very small rings of white shell and dark steatite in bad condition.
17870 32-40-310 (none) (none) Amulet. White shell. In the form of a flying bird (one wing missing) [drawing 1:1]
17895 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Hunter attacked by 3 rampant bulls (?) a second hunter with a bow helps from behind - behind, a palm tree (?).
17898 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mixed lot, off many shapes and materials, found in or just below the floor of an early Neo-Babylonian level and presumably of that date, though some may well be old beads re-used. Shapes include ball, ring, cylinder, rhomboid, diamond, date shaped, elliptical, polygonal, double conoid, poppyseed, chisel, pear pendant, one miniature celt. Materials include carnelian, marble, steatite, sard, calcite, quartz, amethyst, agate, mother of pearl, shell, glazed frit, limestone (?), granite, hematite, crystal.
17899 (none) (none) (none) Bone object. For applique to some piece of furniture (?) [drawing 1:1]
17918 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Duck. [drawing 1:1]
17927 (none) (none) (none) Toggle. Bone. [drawing 1:1]
17928 (none) (none) (none) Boss of string of beads. Steatite with inlay of shell, alternating pieces painted with yellow. [drawing 1:1]
17981 (none) 1933,1013.175 (none) Cones. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17983 (none) 1933,1013.174 (none) Cones. Clay. [drawing 1:2]
18109A (none) (none) (none) Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.
18115 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 malachite cylinder, 2 white calcite rhomboids, 1 cylinder seal, grey steatite, much defaced, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and traces of 2 columns of inscription: cylinders of shell, steatite, pine limestone, some originally with figures but all defaced, eliptical beads of white calcite, agate, biconvex rectangles, square section tubular red limestone, black stone discoid, carnelian date-shaped, glass ball, and one limestone disk with crudely incised design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing]
18140 (none) 1935,0113.453 (none) Beads. Shell tubular, with spacer (poor).
18180 32-40-328 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two ostriches (?).
18195 (none) (none) (none) Needle. Bone (the head slightly chipped).
18196 (none) (none) (none) Borer. Bone. Sharpened at both ends. Section roughly circular.
18197 (none) (none) (none) Borer. Bone. Pointed at both ends, but one end chipped. Section roughly circular.
18198 (none) (none) (none) Inlay. Bone. Strip of, decorated with compass - drawn incised circles.

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