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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 14492A | (none) | 1930,1213.111 | (none) | Necklace. Made up of small conches with chocolate and white bands. |
| 14491A | (none) | 1930,1213.112 | (none) | Necklace. Shell beads. Cylindrical and roughly cut flat shoe like beads perforated in cater. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14490A | 31-17-135 | (none) | (none) | Necklace. 4 long elliptical shaped shell beads & between them roughly cut hematite cylindrical beads, 14 in all. Restrung in exact original order: bead for bead: 1-shell, 2 hematite, 1 shell, 3 hematite, 1 shell, 4 hematite, 1 shell, 5 hematite. Shell beads are convex (slightly) on 1 side & slightly concave on the other. | |
| 14487B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two rubbing stones. Lava (pumice?). Mounted in bitumen for holding. Not in catalog. |
| 14487A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two rubbing stones. Lava (pumice?). Mounted in bitumen for holding. Not in catalog. |
| 14484 | (none) | 1930,1213.532 | (none) | Bone pin with decorated head (point broken). [drawing 1:1] |
| 14483A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Paint box. In 2 compartments, compound of square plain shell plaques with a rectangular shell lid and edge with rectangular strips of shell and mother of pearl. |
| 14469A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ostrich shell. Badly smashed. One end decorated with mother of pearl rectangular strips and shell inlay in form of small triangles set on bitumen. |
| 14468 | (none) | 1930,1213.365 | (none) | Shell bugle bead. Not in catalog. |
| 14462E | (none) | (none) | (none) | [B-E] 4 copper bull's hooves. Hammered over a bitumen core. |
| 14462D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [B-E] 4 copper bull's hooves. Hammered over a bitumen core. |
| 14462C | (none) | 1930,1213.31 | (none) | [B-E] 4 copper bull's hooves. Hammered over a bitumen core. |
| 14462B | 31-17-180 | (none) | (none) | [B-E] 4 copper bull's hooves. Hammered over a bitumen core. | |
| 14446 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rosette. Black steatite. With shell centre. Worked on both side: the face convex. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14441A | (none) | 1930,1213.140 | (none) | Stamp seal. Shell. Archaic. Perforated horizontally through top twice. Seal is cut to represent calf with head bent back over the body. Under side engraved with design of 3 bird headed men rowing a bellum. The bellum is made of reeds intertwined vertically and horizontally. From the furrow and stem of the boat a spike (?) for ramming protrudes horizontally to the line of the boat. Each figure appears to have a circular shield (?) round the body. |
| 14425 | (none) | 1930,1213.356 | (none) | Clay cone. For wall decoration: the blunt end painted black. Not in catalog. | |
| 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] | |
| 1439B | (none) | (none) | B15597 | Shell amulet. Lion couchant. Pierced for suspension. |
| 1439A | (none) | 1927,1003.234 | (none) | Shell amulet. Lion couchant. Pierced for suspension. |
| 1438 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Faint traces of figures; much worn. |
| 14338 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Roundel. Mother of pearl. Perforated through centre. Slightly convex on 1 side. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14327 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Bird-headed men fighting rampant: one of the men grasps a ram(?) which is head downwards by the tail. |
| 14293 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Rampant lions crossed. |
| 14270 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. bird-headed men and rampant lions crossed. |
| 14261 | 31-17-372 | (none) | (none) | Cowrie shell. |