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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)
9597A (none) (none) B16952 [A-B] 2 Cockle shells One containing black paint
9604B (none) 1928,1010.290 (none) 4 Silver Finger Rings [A-D] 2 1/2 coils.
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(?)
9674 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Very much decayed 2 heroes fighting a lion and a bull: an inscription, much effaced.
9675 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Very much worn by use Presentation scene; 3 standing and 1 seated figure
9676A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Cockle shells. [B] One filled with white pigment.
9717 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Shell White. With copper caps, only part of cap remains. Part of seal obliterated. Bearded horned bull standing upright next to horned deity who wears short skirt, and holds him by the tail. Two other deities, one with a flowing beard, the second with a shorter beard and wearing a low rectangular hat, are probably attacking rampant lions and bull; the latter are obliterated.
9723A (none) (none) B17025 [A-B] 2 Cockle Shells Green paint.
9728A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Cockle shells. (2) Containing green paint.
9732A (none) (none) (none) [A-B]2 Cockle Shells. Containing black paint.
9765 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal White shell Much decayed Fighting animals Inscription: en-ki-en-du dub-sar.......na (?) Enki-endu?, scribe....i (same name as on 9764) (H.C. 209)
9776A (none) (none) B16742 [A-L] Shell Plaques. Found in confusion and scattered in the soil (the filling of the shaft) 12 plaques with animals, of which 2 are broken. 4 1/2 others completely decayed. 7 white squares each with 5 blue dots. 3 black squares each with 5 white dots. 2 squares with rosettes. 9 pieces (strips) with eye pattern most of these have suffered by the decay of the shell. Also a quantity of narrow edging slips in mother-of-pearl, red stone and lapis.
9783 (none) (none) B17677 Beads 14 gold ring spacers and a quantity of small lapis beads and carnelian rings: for order see Field Notes. With them are mixed the smaller lapis beads mentioned in the Field Notes as probably belonging to the headdress. [drawing 1:1]
9799 (none) (none) (none) Cockle Shells. Containing green and black paint.
9808 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Shell 2 bearded bulls rampant, back to back, 3 standing heroes next to one another- two of them are attacking the bulls; the third stands in between the other two heroes.
9855 (none) (none) (none) 4 Beads. 3 Carnelians and few specifimens of decayed wooden beads - 1 banded sard. String in following order: carnelian barrel, wooden double conoid, banded sard barrel.
9905 (none) (none) (none) Shell Inlay Small figure in silhouette, broken, and the head missing Male(?) figure wearing kaukanes of early type with 3 rows of fringes, advancing left. In the left hand a short staff [drawing] 1:1 Good early work.
9906 (none) (none) (none) Shell Inlay Small figure in silhouette (head missing) A servant (?) wearing a fringed skirt advances left holding with both hands two piles of pots, each pile containing 4 ordinary tumblers [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.
9909 (none) (none) (none) Shell Plaque Engraved with animal scene. Poor condition & figure indistinct.
9940 (none) (none) (none) Copper Dagger With remains of the wooden handle Type II

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