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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.
17803C (none) 1932,1008.115 (none) Group. From One burial. (A) One gold earring, small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads, two strings, one of very small carnelian balls alternating with very small fluted gold balls and gold double conoids. A second string of lapis lazuli and mother of pearl or shell flat lozenge-shaped beads pierced through the middle of the flat sides.
17842D (none) 1932,1008.122 (none) Beads. A mixed lot. 192 carnelian bugles. 56 carnelian double conoids, lentoids and barrels. 11 large carnelian double conoids and facetted lentoids. 421 carnelian rings. 81 larger carnelian rings. 41 glazed frit balls. 43 lapis lazuli, rings, bugles, ovoids, small mixed beads, apatite (?) quartzite, shell, agate and crystal.
17803B (none) 1932,1008.22 (none) Group. From One burial. (A) One gold earring, small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads, two strings, one of very small carnelian balls alternating with very small fluted gold balls and gold double conoids. A second string of lapis lazuli and mother of pearl or shell flat lozenge-shaped beads pierced through the middle of the flat sides.
(none) (none) 1932,1008.271 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1932,1008.272 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1932,1008.273 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1932,1008.277 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1932,1008.29 (none) (none)
17625D (none) 1932,1008.34 (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
17625E (none) 1932,1008.35 (none) Inlay. Shell: [A-F] Six fragments of white shell cut in strips 38mm wide and decorated with 3 horizontal rows of 'mountain' design: the top and bottom rows are merely outlined with a double incised line which was filled in with black: the middle row is champleve and filled in with bright red paste of which a good deal is preserved. [drawing]
18430 (none) 1933,1013.169 (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and white shell tubes and rings.
17983 (none) 1933,1013.174 (none) Cones. Clay. [drawing 1:2]
17981 (none) 1933,1013.175 (none) Cones. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
(none) (none) 1933,1013.35 (none) (none)
16809 (none) 1933,1013.52 (none) Shell cylinder seal (not pierced). ^dAdad-ba(?)-ni(?) ,dumu Nu-ur- ^dAdad...
18216 (none) 1933,1013.72 (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Badly worn: designed of naked hunter with lion and rampant animals.
18497 (none) 1933,1013.88 (none) Shell handle? Flat and bent. Animal thus: [reference to drawing] [drawing 1:1]
18329 (none) 1933,1013.89 (none) Amulet. Shell in form of an open human hand.
18251 (none) 1933,1013.90 (none) Fragment of inlay. Shell. On one side, plain grooving, part of a hair pattern (probably for the flounce of a skirt): on the other side, very faint, a human figure, from the neck downwards, wearing a kaunakes and advancing right. Top missing. The inlay has been reused and the figure design seems to be the earlier.
19448 (none) 1935,0112.107 (none) cut open as lamp, and with a knob base cut on the back,in which two holes (for fixing in a stand?)
20042 (none) 1935,0112.19 (none) Iron sword. Straight, with two edges and thickened center rib. Complete. (Persian date)
(none) (none) 1935,0112.24 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1935,0112.25 (none) (none)
19246 (none) 1935,0112.26 (none) Copper Prong. Circular-section shaft from which rise two curved prongs (not of the same length) square in section. A square-section tang was fitted into a wooden handle encased in thin copper.

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