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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7578 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Brown. Perforated below top. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7616 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Figures faint. 2 rampant lions facing one another; on either side a hero grasps each by the tail. Between the heroes a heavily draped erect deity. Attributes: snake, palm tree? and scorpion? |
| 7617 | (none) | (none) | B16877 | Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC | |
| 7622 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Two registers. Above, two seated deities facing one another, worshipper standing between them. Behind the major god a standing attendant. Below: spread eagle and 2 gazelles facing one another. |
| 7658 | (none) | (none) | B16890 | Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star. | |
| 7678 | (none) | (none) | B16818 | Puzuzu. Miniature head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Bone. Yellowish. Cock's head? [drawing 1:1] |
| 7902 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Comb. Ivory. Most of the teeth broken off short, only the end guard left to show their original length. On both sides of the flat upper part, an engraving of a bull set in a frame of lines and dotted circles. On one side the bull has his tail down. on the other above his back: otherwise, the 2 engravings are similar and show the bull with head lowered to strike. Very fine Phoenician work. |
| 7903 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory box lid. Circular. Convex above with line border and central rosette, 12-petalled: rabetted below to fit circular box. |
| 7904 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Paint pot. Ivory. In form of sphinx of Phoenico-Assyrian style: the box is an oblong depression between the wings. Indifferent carving, and the wing in poor condition; half of the face of the sphinx missing. [additional notes on back of catalog card follow:] U.6665, correct Pl. reference in Pl.25. Plate 15. Captions wanted. Pl.23 = add catalogue number. Keep Pl.33 but insert the new weapon types. For Pl.34 (new), use metal objects above and 800m ran [last word illegible] types infers. Change Plate numbers 34 (adr[...]) h3. Plate 36, keep number. Plate 35, adr[...], change number h3. Pl.37 (adr[...]) to become a figure in the text. pp.25. Gold to catalogue U.6456, Legrain's [illegible] No.734. |
| 7905 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mirror handle. Ivory. Rounded handle; rectangular tang at top to fit into mirror-socket. [drawing] |
| 7906 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mirror handle. Shell. [drawing] |
| 7907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 7908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick. Ivory. Rectangular in section, thickening towards the head and then sharpened to point. |
| 7913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Comb. Ivory. White. Fragment. Two rows of teeth; one row has been worn down at an angle. The flat space between the tooth-rows decorated with lines and dotted circles. |
| 7984A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Pair of cockle-shells. Containing white pigment. |
| 8001A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment. |
| 8001C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment. |
| 8009 | (none) | (none) | B17622 | White shell beads. All small, mostly minute: several thousands of them, with one white spacer. | |
| 8013D | (none) | (none) | B16838 | [A and B] Two silver bracelets. Made of three twists of wire. To one of these is attached by corrosion an [C] object of silver apparently containing a cockle shell [D]; the cockle shell has in it green pigment and was covered by a silver shell (broken) thus: [drawing] though it is impossible to say whether the shell is really belonging or only accidentally attached. Various beads are also attached by corrosion to the bracelet and also [E] an eye of lapis with white shell filling. |
| 8020A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Two squares. [A] One of white bone. [B] One of dark grey stone. Each set with 5 inlay dots, black on the white square, white on the black, thus: [drawing 1:1] |
| 8021 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cuttle-fish bones. Probably for toilet purposes. |
| 8044 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small rings of green glazed frit, A few lapis beads One carnelian One shell |
| 8056A | (none) | (none) | B16882 | Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable. | |
| 8073 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet of mother o'pearl Inlaid with 2 spots of lapis of which one has dropped out. [drawing 1:1] |