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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)
8250 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mixed lapis and shell, 29 in all, 28 found together in a basket, 1 biggish lapis ribbed ball formed apart and possibly belonging to the copper pin U.8248.
8251 (none) (none) (none) Inlay? Mother of pearl. 2 pieces. Each consists of 2 circular pieces perforated in the middle and joined by a straight band - shaped like heavy spectacles. Ribbed in section. [drawing 1:1]
8256 (none) (none) (none) Knife. Copper. Flat blade. 3 rivets on either side of short tang. Only 3 of the rivets remain. Low rib down middle. Fragments of wooden handle adhering to rivets. Broken in 3 pieces. [drawing]
8281A (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Six cockle shells. One containing black paint. Two containing green paint.
8290 (none) (none) B16863 Cylinder seal. Shell. Pinkish. Slightly blackened by fire. Two registers. Subject indistinct. Above: A spread eagle. Below: A kneeling? man, and a snake? occupying the full length of the seal 2 winged dragons, crossed, and a rampant bull.
8301 (none) (none) (none) Shell roundel. Carved as a flower rosette with 8 petals of which 5 are marked with engraved circles: the edge is serrated. The whole is slightly convex: a hole through the center. [drawing 1:1]
8310 (none) (none) (none) Beads. One carnelian, a few lapis, and a number of very small shell rings.
8312A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells containing traces of [A] green and [B] black pigment respectively.
8313 (none) (none) (none) Shell duck The body is made of a large shell cut open : the head is a pink limestone & was fixed on with a peg through a hole in the top end of the shell : round the top end of the shell, imitating the bird's breast colours, is incrustation, diamonds and triangles of lapis lazuli and shell set in bitumen. Some of the tesserae are loose and are preserved. [drawing]
8327A (none) (none) (none) [A-L] Cockle shells. 12 in all. Containing green and other paints.
8345A.1 (none) (none) B17189 [A and B] 2 cockle shells. Containing green paint.
8362 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shell. Containing green paint.
8378A (none) (none) (none) [A-F] Cockle shells. 3 pairs. Containing paints.
8385 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Subject: in front of a palisade a standing figure, then a seated figure facing him, between them a jar: a second palisade: three goats: in the field above various emblems (gaming board(?) Ziggurat(?) ear of corn, vases). Curious archaic piece.
8388 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell? Burnt and blackened: much defaced. Two registers. In each 3 gazelles: the registers in inverse directions.
8419 (none) (none) (none) Shell Used as a ladle?
8454A (none) (none) (none) [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.
8468 (none) (none) B17188 Cockle shell. Traces of dark green paint.
8494 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Shell Blackened by fire Two rampant lions crossed on either side 2 rampant antelopes? and between them a naked hero
8499A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells. [A] One containing black, [B] the other containing dark green paint.
8499B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells. [A] One containing black, [B] the other containing dark green paint.
8513 (none) (none) B16869 Cylinder seal White shell, much decayed, but preserving an inscription in the upper register [drawing of inscription]
8514A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Cockle shells. Two pairs containing paint (green).
8519 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot All broken up and shape doubtful: egg-shell ware with a line of light red paint round the shoulder
8538 (none) 1928,1009.406 (none) Shell. Cut to form an open spouted bowl or ladle. Above the opening is a crude carving of a bird's head, the eye inlaid with lapis lazuli.

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