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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11521C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid. |
| 11560 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis, gold, carnelian & shell forming a belt. (See Field Notes). NB = Most of the beads are in the mixed collection. Then put apart in a cigarette box an almost [illegible 3 word phrase] of the same belt.) |
| 11565 | (none) | 1929,1017.349 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Subject: lions & bulls fighting. Inscribed sign(?) resembling sag, supporting a crescent. HC..10 [drawing] |
| 11597A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. [A](1) Shell, cut as a lamp & engraved with the head & neck of a bird (the eye orginally inlaid but inlay is missing) [drawing] [B](2) Copper Dagger (broken). Type IV; [C](3) Copper pin with lapis ball head (broken)[Type] V. |
| 11670 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder. Yellowish shell. Presentation, to goddess in front of whom goose & crescent cf. UM. 11671; Inscription: IGI-AN-DIB-AB IB-DU-LUGAL dumu ZI-KU-LI meaning what? HC 20 |
| 11710C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. (A) Copper Pin with fluted head (broken) (B) A quantity of lapis double conoid beads.; (C) Cockle shells with green & blue paint. |
| 11715 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell very badly decayed. |
| 11744E | (none) | 1929,1017.275 | (none) | Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows. | |
| 11751 | (none) | 1929,1017.348 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal. | |
| 11782 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ostrich Egg. With pottery foot and rim added to make a vase--the flat top of the mouth and the clay neck and foot are all decorated with mosaic in mother-of-pearl & red paste set in bitumen. Broken and in bad condition. |
| 11797 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Wooden comb. Teeth all broken off but many preserved. |
| 11798 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Head. A god or hero with human face & bulls ears and horns. The eyes originally inlaid with lapis & shell: the right eye gone altogether, of the left the lapis preserved. |
| 11862 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Plaques. Engraved with figure of cheetah in hilly country. |
| 11883A | (none) | 1929,1017.458 | (none) | [A-C] 3 Roundels, [A-B] 2 of shell, [C] 1 of shale, [D] and an oval-topped shell button inlaid with a rosette of red & blue petals. D. 220mm [E] Broken pin of type VI, but with head missing; possibly this is all one composite pin-head, or perhaps only the roundels are such, as they would give just the effect of a lapis ball set in gold or silver. [drawing] |
| 11904 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Gold. Of thin metal pressed over a core of some other material: at the ends, shell caps, of which one is missing. Above: the royal family feasting. Below: harpist & other musicians. |
| 11958 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. Tree & buffalo of Mohenjo daro type. |
| 11981 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. 2 men fighting a lion. |
| 12014 | (none) | 1929,1017.531 | (none) | Copper Adze. Type I. | |
| 12019 | (none) | 1929,1017.366 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. |
| 12031 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Hero between 2 antelopes & a lion. |
| 12050 | (none) | 1929,1017.224 | (none) | Flowers. 3 of gold thus [drawing 1;1], and petals of white shell, lapis & gold of 3 more. As far as could be seen the latter belonged to a comb & had silver backs: the gold flowers were on the head and may have belonged to the comb or have been attached to the hair ribbon. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12053 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Lions fighting. |
| 12057C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group: (A) Copper Pin bent head, Type VI, A. (B) Beads: Lapis lazuli double conoids and some silver; (C) cockle shell with paint; (D)[D.1-.2] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. |
| 12063B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) 17 large lapis double conoid BEADS (B) Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed, 2 registers. Seated deity. Presentation. (C) Copper Pin, tip missing, broken. [Drawing of head] |
| 12066B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) earring silver 2 1/2 coils, decayed. (B) [B and D] Two cockel shells; green paint. (C) [.1-.2] Beads; small lapis double conoids. |