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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8935C | (none) | (none) | B16749 | [A-C] 3 handles? Apparently 3 rods made of rings alternately white shell and black shale (?) strung on a reed, the whole ending in a shell handle-knob. [drawing 1:1] | |
 | 8996 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell roundel. Convex above with incised 8 point star, the petals inlaid with lapis and red paste, 3 red and 5 blue of which one is missing. [drawing] |
| 8997 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell roundel. With 8-pointed star rosette engraved on the convex surface, the petals originally inlaid with red and blue, but the inlay missing. The shell is mounted on a disk of red limestone. |
| 9049 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell White Curvilinear desig 6 holes partially perforated on body of seal to admit inlay. No trace of inlay left. [drawing] |
| 9050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell White. A seated divinity and 3 standing figures. Poor condition. |
| 9052 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone combs. Fragments of, too broken to mend. one thus [drawing 1:1] the other with a [undecipherable] strip below the teeth, 003 wide. |
| 9053 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone pencils (or bodkins) Fragments of With bands of incised decoration, feather and herring-bone pattern. |
| 9069 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell Subject indistinct Rampant lion and rampant gazelle. |
| 9091 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bone comb. |
| 9112 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Set of shell plaques. 4 are engraved with figures of animals, 2 of bulls, one of a stag, one a gazelle, all with foliage behind: the engraved lines were filled in with color, black for the animals, red for the scenery. The order of the 4 main plaques is certain, one above the other, bull, bull, stag, gazelle: with them were 2 pieces with eye design and the position of these is uncertain: but as a lapis border on the right was pink, the latter was probably the outside and the eye plaques came on the left. With these was found a single piece of mother of pearl border (?) with a circle on it at one end on one side, and at each end on the other. The whole restored as a single piece. Inlay or other incrustation, 3 plaques of shell with engravings of cattle, one above the other, between them and above blue lapis strips, red limestone down the front against the heads of bulls. The engraved line were filled in with black color for animals and red for landscape. [drawing] A 4th, broken, plaque with a gazelle was found, and 2 'eye' pieces. | |
| 9117 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal White shell Subject: 2 figures seated and drinking through straws, one figure standing at their backs. |
| 9124A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Beads 2 Long facetted conoids. One Lapis, 1- silver over a bitumen core. [drawing] [C] Also, a silver earring [drawing] |
| 9137 | (none) | (none) | B17361 | Copper mace head Heavy copper cylinder with projecting points. Inside, the remains of the wooden handle [drawing] nearly 1:1 | |
| 9144 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads very small lapis and gold balls, with them a pendant of artificial cat's eye (hematite(?) & shell) set in copper. [drawing of cat's eye] |
| 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 |
| 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 |