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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)
18554 33-35-145 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and shell cylindrical, the latter coarsely made.
18267 33-35-144 (none) (none) Beads. White, pink and blue glazed beads shaped as triple rings, and rings and balls and tubes, one square, one notched rectangle, 2 long date shaped; shell rings, 1 large black and white glass date shaped: 2 flattened shell limbs.
17797 32-40-345 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]
(none) 32-40-342 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 32-40-338 (none) (none) Unknown
18180 32-40-328 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two ostriches (?).
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.
17625B 32-40-318 (none) (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
17625A 32-40-317 (none) (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
17870 32-40-310 (none) (none) Amulet. White shell. In the form of a flying bird (one wing missing) [drawing 1:1]
18207C 32-40-258 (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot, largely paste. The bulk was said to be ? and have yellow, blue, and white with and double crescents glass paste nimp, dark reg: with men same tune beads which may not-belong to the main set.
17842K 32-40-242 (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot. 192 carnelian bugles. 56 carnelian double conoids, lentoids and barrels. 11 large carnelian double conoids and facetted lentoids. 421 carnelian rings. 81 larger carnelian rings. 41 glazed frit balls. 43 lapis lazuli, rings, bugles, ovoids, small mixed beads, apatite (?) quartzite, shell, agate and crystal.
17856 32-40-239 (none) (none) Beads. Very small rings of white shell and dark steatite in bad condition.
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]
17887D 32-40-226 (none) (none) [A-E] Copper bull's head. Five examples. Cast in copper and originally attached to some wooden object (from which they have been broken away) by a pin passing through the neck. All of same type but differing in size and slightly in execution all of regular Al Obaid style all in good condition.
16190 31-43-8 (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
16559E 31-43-55 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible.
16177 31-43-26 (none) (none) Cylinder seal.White shell. Linear design.
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]
17406 31-43-228 (none) (none) Pin. Bone. Carved head. Tip missing. Tab anal. [drawing 1:1]
16139 31-43-191 (none) (none) Bone handle. burnished. Possible a dagger handle, or a mirror? Remains of copper rivet below guard. [drawing 1:1]
16245 31-43-185 (none) (none) Fragment of tridachna shell engraved with the head of a lion or monster, apparently winged. [drawing 1:1]
16775 31-43-166 (none) (none) Beads: minute shell rings.
17054 31-43-164 (none) (none) 4 beads. 1 amethyst - 4 sided [represented in drawing] lozenge shaped section. 3 carnelian (2 discoid and 1 ring bead). 1 bone lentoid. [drawing]
17357 31-43-142 (none) (none) Beads. 1 Mother of pearl (?) ball. Glass paste bugles and double conoids. Carnelian double conoids, ring beads. 1 steatite double conoid. 1 pale lapis lazuli (?) bugle.

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