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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)
(none) 31-17-156 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 31-17-179B (none) (none) (none)
12082 (none) (none) (none) Roundel. Mother of Pearl. Engraved 8-petalled rosette in type as the rosettes found on tips of silver combs of early royal graves. Centre (originally in lapis?) is missing.
12176 (none) (none) (none) Inlay. From a box? Squares & triangles of mother of pearl, red & black stone.
12326 (none) (none) (none) Shell inlay. Soldier wearing a helmet and carrying a battle-axe. Hair done up in a chignon at back of head protruding beyond helmet: over left shoulder clothing in shape of a fleece, and under chin a beard; fleece & beard indicated by undulating lines. Head in profile, torso full face. All the incisions originally had black paint. Figure missing below waist- this must have been of some other material. This was found in conjunction with large pieces of slate that had evidently formed the framework to contain shell carvings, cf. Kish plaques. With the slate framework was found a large triangular piece of mother of pearl.
12358A (none) 1929,1017.100 (none) Canopy (?) Fragments. (A) The mosaic border of the curved bar. (B) The top bar (?) with gold bands, silver plating, mosaic band and shell rings and studs and (C) Staves with copper spearheads mounted with gold foil.
12358E (none) 1929,1017.104 (none) Canopy (?) Fragments. (A) The mosaic border of the curved bar. (B) The top bar (?) with gold bands, silver plating, mosaic band and shell rings and studs and (C) Staves with copper spearheads mounted with gold foil.
12358F (none) 1929,1017.105 (none) Canopy (?) Fragments. (A) The mosaic border of the curved bar. (B) The top bar (?) with gold bands, silver plating, mosaic band and shell rings and studs and (C) Staves with copper spearheads mounted with gold foil.
14338 (none) (none) (none) Roundel. Mother of pearl. Perforated through centre. Slightly convex on 1 side. [drawing 1:1]
14469A (none) (none) (none) Ostrich shell. Badly smashed. One end decorated with mother of pearl rectangular strips and shell inlay in form of small triangles set on bitumen.
14483A (none) (none) (none) Paint box. In 2 compartments, compound of square plain shell plaques with a rectangular shell lid and edge with rectangular strips of shell and mother of pearl.
15803 (none) (none) (none) Inlay. Mother of pearl. Including small animal carvings.
17090 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids, balls, discoids, scaraboids. Amethystine quartz scaraboids. Lapis lazuli discoid, scaraboid. Glass paste, yellow, balls, lentoids and 1 miniature puzuzu head. Carnelian pieces of inlay consisting of round lapis centers in a mother of pearl circular backing set in a circular steatite backing.
17115 (none) 1931,1010.85 (none) Amulet. Mother-of-pearl. In the form of a human hand (thumb broken off)
17357 31-43-142 (none) (none) Beads. 1 Mother of pearl (?) ball. Glass paste bugles and double conoids. Carnelian double conoids, ring beads. 1 steatite double conoid. 1 pale lapis lazuli (?) bugle.
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.
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.
17898 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mixed lot, off many shapes and materials, found in or just below the floor of an early Neo-Babylonian level and presumably of that date, though some may well be old beads re-used. Shapes include ball, ring, cylinder, rhomboid, diamond, date shaped, elliptical, polygonal, double conoid, poppyseed, chisel, pear pendant, one miniature celt. Materials include carnelian, marble, steatite, sard, calcite, quartz, amethyst, agate, mother of pearl, shell, glazed frit, limestone (?), granite, hematite, crystal.
19055 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings, cylindrical and balls and double conoids: lapis balls, ovals, and double conoids: ribbed paste: steatite frog amulet, and mother-of-pearl bird amulet [drawing 1:1]
19247 (none) 1935,0112.80 (none) Beads. 1 shell tube, and 2 oval shell frontlets; diamond beads of lapis, mother-of-pearl, paste and limestone, paste balls, small shell rings, quartzite rhomboid and square paste spacers.
8073 (none) (none) (none) Amulet of mother o'pearl Inlaid with 2 spots of lapis of which one has dropped out. [drawing 1:1]
8141 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Partly obliterated. At the base of the seal in high relief a lion, body in profile head and forelegs full face. Winged dragon? gazelle, and hero attacking bull. 2 bearded bulls rampant, crossed, with man's heads.
8167 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shell. Containing green paint.
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]
827 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 9 bugle-beads of white shell, much decayed; the longest is 7mm long. A few shell disk beads of the usual small type. A quantity of small shells, whole, but pierced for threading. One mother-o'-pearl spacer, flat, thus [drawing 1:1] Half-a-dozen small carnelian ring beads. Found with stonerams
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