Organic Remains
Material from living matter
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16738A | (none) | 1931,1010.91 | (none) | Puzuzu heads. [A] One shell, [B] one frit. Both pierced at top of head for suspension. |
| 17115 | (none) | 1931,1010.85 | (none) | Amulet. Mother-of-pearl. In the form of a human hand (thumb broken off) |
| 17109 | (none) | 1931,1010.84 | (none) | Amulet. Shell in form of a human hand [drawing 1:1] |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.542 | (none) | (none) | |
| 16282B | (none) | 1931,1010.414 | (none) | [A-B] Terracotta. roughly moulded in high relief two replicas from the same mould; in each case only the upper part preserved. Kassite(?). [drawing 1:1] | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.392 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.380 | (none) | (none) | |
| 17020A | (none) | 1931,1010.314 | (none) | [A-C] 3 lance (?) heads. Iron. 1 complete, 1 broken in 2 pieces, top of one missing all traces of wooden hafting. Tips only circular in section, rest rectangulare in section. Types approximately thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] |
| 17068A | (none) | 1931,1010.301 | (none) | [A-B] Chisels. Copper. A pair. On one side of B remains in copper of an open work sheath - trellis work type. ? | |
| 16927C | (none) | 1931,1010.232 | (none) | Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering] |
| 17353B | (none) | 1931,1010.196 | (none) | Manicure (?) implements. Bone. Polished. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17140 | (none) | 1931,1010.191 | (none) | Kohl tube. Bone. Lathe-turned. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17389 | (none) | 1931,1010.190 | (none) | Comb. Bone. Several prings missing some wholly others in part. [drawing 1:1] |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.185 | (none) | (none) |
| 16220 | (none) | 1931,1010.15 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. A humped bull of Indian type feeding on a bundle of hay(?) in front of a palm tree: on the other side, a scorpion & above it, horizontally a man with feathered headdress. A remarkable seal. |
| 16424 | (none) | 1931,1010.1 | (none) | Statue. White limestone, with eyes inlaid with shell and lapis; traces of black paint on hair. Female figure standing, hands clasped in front of the body. Nose broken, one eye pupil restored. The hair is simply treated with curls across the forehead, then a broad bandeau; the back hair is brought up & over the bandeau in a small chignon and hangs in a heavy wave above the shoulders & at back of head. She wears a plain chiton & heavy cloak falling from the shoulders over the arms in straight lines to the feet. The feet are missing, the base of the stone being broken away; when found the statue was let into a round baase and bitumen had been plastered round it & smoothed down so as to make a spreading skirt at the expense of loss of design to the figure, which was this reduced from an original height ofc. 54mm to 37mm (the bitumen has been kept on by waxing). It had also been broken in half and mended with bitumen. The workmanship is not very good, and the decayed surface of the stone does it less than justice - but the type is a good classical one. The statue was obviously an antiquity given a place of honor in a temple which must date to circ. BC; so that the date of the statue might well be as early as the 3rd dynasty of UR. |
| 15192.1 | (none) | 1930,1213.93 | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles. |
| 15378 | (none) | 1930,1213.83, 1930,1213.84, 1930,1213.85 | (none) | Beads: very small rings of black stone & white shell worn at the wrist in many parallel strings, probably sewn on cloth. |
| 13560A | (none) | 1930,1213.539 | (none) | [A-J] 10 shell rings. Originally decoration for a wooden scepter? |
| 15520 | (none) | 1930,1213.533 | (none) | Bone stylus ? With arrow-like head, flattened. [drawing 1:2] |
| 14484 | (none) | 1930,1213.532 | (none) | Bone pin with decorated head (point broken). [drawing 1:1] |
| 14242B | (none) | 1930,1213.478 | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper chisels. Type VI, A. | |
| 15409 | (none) | 1930,1213.46 | (none) | Copper spear. Type VI.A | |
| 13559A | (none) | 1930,1213.395 | (none) | [A-AN] Cockle shells. 30 to 40. Faint traces of paint, greenish, yellow ochre, brown, red. |
| 14001A | (none) | 1930,1213.390 | (none) | [A-B] Pair of cockle shells containing yellow ochre paint and a second containing green. |