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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)
8056C (none) 1928,1009.21 (none) Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
11175B (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. Shell. [A} A good deal decayed: design of fighting animals. At one end the hole is of normal size: at the other end it is much enlarged and into it is fitted [B] a second cylinder, engraved with rope-net pattern and a bull.
11175A (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. Shell. [A} A good deal decayed: design of fighting animals. At one end the hole is of normal size: at the other end it is much enlarged and into it is fitted [B] a second cylinder, engraved with rope-net pattern and a bull.
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
12664H (none) (none) (none) Description Box containing a large number of fragments of ivory. Condition Fair; fragmentary.
6551 (none) 1927,0527.152 (none) Die. White bone. E. [drawing 1:1]
18259 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Shell. Type VI.
6148 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. White shell. Type VI [drawing 1:1]
9907A (none) (none) (none) Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black.
9907B (none) (none) (none) Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black.
9907C (none) (none) (none) Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black.
112 (none) (none) (none) Eye for a statue. Core of shell, cut to shape, with hollow to take eyeball inlay.
2920 (none) 1927,1003.240 (none) Eye from figurine. Shell with pupil of lapis lazuli. [drawing 1:1]
6793 (none) (none) (none) Eye socket. Bone. E. [drawing 1:1]
6586 (none) (none) (none) Eye. Shell. Eyeball of glass, inlaid. Included in text and catalog (no drawing wanted) [drawing 1:1]
16298 (none) (none) (none) Faience Inlay. Fragments (one complete) of pear-shaped pieces, and of others of black shell(?) burnt. [drawing 1:1]
8787 (none) (none) (none) FAIENCE MASK Portion of neck missing. Each ear perforated three times. Two rows of holes partially perforated through neck. Hole partially perforated through middle of mask from the back. Fine bold modelling. Holes in neck inlaid with bitumen? Vol VII. [drawing 1:1]
19447 (none) (none) (none) fighting animals
14407 31-17-86 (none) (none) Figurine (amulet?) of a bull, white stone. Carved in the round: the eyes originally inlaid and in one is preserved the ring of white shell. Pierced behind the shoulder for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
12749 (none) 1928,1010.795 (none) Figurine bitumen. Very crudely modelled. A seated or kneeling human figure. [drawing 1:1]
17378 (none) (none) (none) Finger ring. Shell.
2510 (none) 1927,1003.249 (none) Finger ring. White shell (much decayed) Oblong bezel with flower rosette and traces of leaf on either side. [drawing 1:1]
14932 (none) (none) (none) Flint Hoe (?) With traces of bitumen from the hafting at the pointed end. [drawing 1:1]
14920A (none) 1930,1213.371 (none) Flints. Set in bitumen. Which fixed the flint either to wood or to bone. [drawing 1:1]
14920B 31-16-519 (none) (none) Flints. Set in bitumen. Which fixed the flint either to wood or to bone. [drawing 1:1]

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