Furniture

This category includes objects used for sitting other objects on or sitting oneself on. These could be made of any material, usually only the stone or clay objects survive. For miniature tables, beds, and chairs, look for Furniture under Miniature/models.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
17360	(none)	(none)	(none)	Date stone. Jasper (?) Reddish. [drawing 1:1]
17407A	31-43-235	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 steatite knobs. For inlay. With a rosette pattern on the upper side consisting of a 8 shell petals with one inlaid shell center piece enclosed in a dark blue paste ring. Perforated with three holes for purpose of fixing. Tab anal. [drawing]
17624	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold sheet. Fairly thick metal. Obviously plating from some object whose character cannot be determined. The surviving fragment comes from a rectangular piece, from the top right corner. Near the bottom of the fragment remains of panel with inscription impressed from the top surface. [drawing]
17625A	32-40-317	(none)	(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]
17625B	32-40-318	(none)	(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]
17625C	(none)	(none)	(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]
17754	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inlay. Shell. Ingraved with 'mountain' pattern of overlapping scales. [drawing 1:1]
17896	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper nail with gilt head and scraps of gold foil.
18109A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.
18198	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inlay. Bone. Strip of, decorated with compass - drawn incised circles.
18226	(none)	(none)	(none)	Sheet gold. a strip of fairly heavy metal bent double lengthways as if to form an edging, but the sharp point is solid.
18260A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragments of inlay. Shell, with traces of red paint design of scles thus: [reference to drawing] [drawing 1:1]. (A) As drawn. (B) [measurements] (C) [measurements]
18297	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay nail? Of painted Obaid ware. The top is broken and seems to have been cup shaped. [drawing]
18309	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of inlay. White limestone. From a frieze of Al Obaid type. A man, naked except for a loin cloth, kneeling on one knee and wielding a paddle or punt-pole (?). The head missing.
18313A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inlay. Fragments of grey steatite. Hair of head or beard from a large figure. [drawing] [A] One large piece thus [reference to drawing]. [B] One fragment from the upper part perhaps fitting on, [C] and one single curl
18335	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper bolt. With shaft round in section and gilt head.
18358	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold leaf. Fragment of very thin metal cut out for inlay with small shield-shaped stones arranged in rows.
19086	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inlay, or gaming pieces and inlay. 7 shell squares each originally engraved which were inlaid between borders of narrow brown wood(?) strips: also 5 shale disks each inlaid with 5 large white dots and 1, 2, or 3 small red dots; and two square shale pieces each inlaid with 5 white dots (probably there were more which were lost); the shell squares are inlay, the others may be gaming pieces. [drawing 1:1]
19162	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone table of offerings. White limestone. On the stem, incised palm-leaf pattern. Type 101.
20056	(none)	(none)	(none)	Table-top? White limestone. Semi-circular, with 3 small holes for attachment of legs (?) and three large holes, for standing vases (?). All holes larger at the top. [drawing]
20080	(none)	(none)	(none)	Disk of white limestone. Flat below, convex above. Pierced with central hole, and 8 depressions as for inlay. [drawing]
20093	(none)	(none)	(none)	Obsidian 'nail'. White obsidian. [drawing 1:1]
18109B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.
18109C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.
18109D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bone inlay. 4 flat pieces of bone incised with rows of concentric circles [A-D] (D. 10mm)= each has 2 holes for attachment. (A) With 2 rows of circles. (B) With 1 row of holes. (C and D) Like B, but both broken. Persian period.