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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)
9157 (none) (none) (none) Beads Bone Small rings & balls.
9160 (none) (none) (none) Inlay Square shell plaques with 5 dots of lapis inset. [drawing] 1:1
9166 (none) (none) B16853 Cylinder seal Pinkish stone Rampant beasts Poor work and rubbed Chipped at base
9187 (none) (none) B16871 Cylinder seal White shell Burnt and reduced to lime. Scene: fighting men and animals.
9214 (none) (none) (none) Bone inlay Painted red [drawing] 1:1
9255 (none) (none) (none) Ostrich egg Broken and part missing. Decorated at one end with tesselated triangles of white shell alternated by triangles and diamonds of bitumen. There are 5 rows of triangles and above strips of shell 0015 wide and 002 high.
9261 (none) (none) B16892 Cylinder seal Shell? 2 seated gods, between them a standing god. Behind one throne a palm tree.
9271 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shell Containing Peacock Blue Paint
9290 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Standing god in shrine and one other standing figure. Poor condition and originally poor scratchy work
9306A (none) (none) (none) (A,B) Two Shell plaques Found together. Engraved, one with a puma, the other with a wild goat. 003sq Originally mounted in bitumen With these were three strips of bone inlay for border and 4 pairs of lapis strip border, total of lapis length 005
9306B (none) (none) (none) (A,B) Two Shell plaques Found together. Engraved, one with a puma, the other with a wild goat. 003sq Originally mounted in bitumen With these were three strips of bone inlay for border and 4 pairs of lapis strip border, total of lapis length 005
9341 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Almost all the surface gone, but one small part left showing a lion, a stag and a spotted leopard. Found attached by a silver band to the belt.
9355 (none) (none) (none) Plaque and shell fragments Plaque is square, made of shale, and set with five shell circles in one face like a domino number 5. Two of the circles missing. Fragments of shell plaques, one bearing traces of red paint and engraved with the figure of an eagle attacking the back of a bull ? A fresh water shell L.008 from the valve end.
9357A (none) (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Bone disks Perforated in middle
9503 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Somewhat decayed 2 very large scorpions with a star between them a standing human figure, and an upright pole with a star on top
9528 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal White shell Very poor and almost wholly effaced: worship of a god, between 2 emblems(?)
9551 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. With copper caps, one broken. 2 heroes fighting a lion & a bull. Traces of an inscription.
9567 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Shell Two heroes fighting a lion and a bull. 2 columns of inscription: Gimil-i-li-su; Sangudgis-erim; Gimil-ilisu; Priest of dgisERIM (su for su, as in period of Agade) (HC.203)
9568 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal White shell In very poor condition: the subject was two men fighting an animal, but it was hardly distinguishable.
9585A (none) (none) B16946 [A-B] 2 Cockle shells Containing black paint
9589 (none) (none) (none) Bone Pin Broken in many places Rounded in section Criss-cross decoration incised on stem. [drawing]
9597A (none) (none) B16952 [A-B] 2 Cockle shells One containing black paint
9620 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Poor condition With copper caps: these are stuck into the seal with bitumen. Pig sticking scene: 3 heroes: 2 of them fighting a boar? The boar is obliterated.
9623A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 Necklaces 3 separate strings all from same grave; gold double conoids and ball beads; on copper cores, silver flattened double conoids, lapis lazenges, ball beads, double conoids, carnelian double conoids, minute ring beads. 1 Agate lentoid 1 jasper lentoid 1 shell? bead [drawing] For order of stringing cf. Field Note.
9671 (none) (none) (none) Shell cut to serve as a ladle(?)

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