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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9154 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Inlay Bone Remains of wooden box (all wood gone) inlaid with small strips and squares of bone 0003, square. The latter were set diamond ways in rows and the strips formed a ladder border. (restored from impressions on the mud) [drawing] |
| 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 |
| 9281 | (none) | 1928,1009.66 | (none) | Beads Small double conoids of gold and lapis One large lapis bead with gold cap and a gold wire let into it spirally one square shell bead & one carnelian bugle. |
| 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 |
| 9333 | (none) | 1928,1009.179 | (none) | Gold binding. From a stick or sticks. The gold bands were set at intervals of about 005, round a stick of wood covered (between the bands) with a coat of gesso painted bright red. The longest piece is 008 long and shaped at the end. Thus: [drawing] Into the top end was set a broad-headed copper nail, fixed in wood: other pieces are 003 and 0016 wide: they are all fastened with minute gold nails. XXIX. [drawing] |
| 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] |
| 9591 | (none) | 1928,1010.298 | (none) | Mosaic Fragment perhaps from a box: the woodwork was entirely perished, and all that survives is a patch of incrustation work formed of minute squares of reddish wood set in bitumen: the squares measure 4 to 5 millimetres across. |