Organic Remains
Material from living matter
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16386 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell finger ring. |
| 16391 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze earring. Traces of wooden casing. Looped pin passed through disc, hooked end to loop. [drawing] |
| 16395 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone pin(?) Pointed top. Stem rectangular in section decorated on all four faces with incised concentric circles. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16410 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Standing hero, & beasts fightling, heraldically crossed. 16411 |
| 16425 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue. White limestone; broken in half but complete. The eyes inlaid with lapis, brown-painted shell and steatite, the nose of plaster, yellow paint on top of head. Female figure, standing rigid, the hands clasped in front of the body; she wears a long garment with 7 pleated flounces reaching to the ground, the arms hiden by the second flounce with seems to be a short cape. Two long tresses of hair hang down in front over the shoulders, the rest of the hair hangs down behind in a heavy square-cut netting. A bandeau passes across the forehead and also it rises a flat sharp-edged disk marked by criss-cross lines. It is painted yellow & may represent the (early) gold ribbon headdress; in the top of it at the back are 3 holes in which must have been stuck hed ornaments after the fashion of the (early) comos. The ears are pierced for metal ear0ring. The nose (perhaps because the original had been broken off(?) was made separately; there was a deep slot to fasten it on; one half of the nose modeled in plaster (out in bad condition & mishappen) was found and has been provisionally attacked. The figure is extraordinarily ugly, and the workmanship is flaccid and mechanical. |
| 16428 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Inlay. Fragment. Lower part of draped figure in 1/2 round, with attchment behind for fixing by wire (into wood?) very fine work. |
| 16559E | 31-43-55 | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible. | |
| 16608 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Presentation scene. Enthroned god. Attendant stands behind 2 figures approached the enthroned god. |
| 16624 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frog amulet. White shell. Top of head missing. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16627 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Gilgamesh & Eabani fighting rampant lion & bull(?). |
| 16632 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Collection of knuckle bones, 7 in all. |
| 16635 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone pin. Square section top-rounded at bottom. Incised decoration on upper portion of stem. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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. |
| 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] |
| 16775 | 31-43-166 | (none) | (none) | Beads: minute shell rings. | |
| 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.? |
| 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. |
| 17009 | 31-43-229 | (none) | (none) | Bone tools. A collection. One end pointed, the other end rounded serrated edges, feathered cutting of sides, entire convex. [drawing 1:1] |