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)
7028	(none)	(none)	(none)	Collection of crystals for inlay. About 25 in number. U shaped with apex over incurved side. E. [drawing 1:1]
7636	(none)	(none)	(none)	Nail? Obsidian. Translucent. Head chipped. [drawing 1:1]
7665	(none)	(none)	B16763	Miniature head. Stone. Grey. For inlay, flat back. Large hollow eye sockets. Eyeballs originally inlaid, missing. Only upper half of cheeks and portion of chin represented. Beard of different material probably fitted on to lower portion of face.
7684	(none)	1928,1009.336	(none)	Chain. Bronze. Circular links. Fragment. 3 portions.
8019A	(none)	1928,1009.142	(none)	[A-B] Two lapis eye sockets. Intended to have shell iris set in (cf. one attached to U.8013)
8019B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Two lapis eye sockets [A-B]. Intended to have shell iris set in (cf. one attached to U.8013)
8217	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table of white limestone. Made in 2 pieces, a flat plate and a foot, fastened together with bitumen. (card received from Mallowan 1976. TE Reade)
8223	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. White limestone. Only the stem left, and that not perfect. Scratched design of palm leaves(?) [drawing]
8233	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. Clay. Normal "champagne" type, the stem decorated with incised design of palm-leaves, but not slit. Broken but complete.
8245	(none)	(none)	B17310	Clay offering table. Scratched decoration on the base and half way up the stem to a raised band on which were 4 figures of seated gazelles (?) - one now missing. 2 vertical slits up the stem and round holes below these in the splay of the base. Broken and imperfect.
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]
8276	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. Limestone. White. Broken and fragmentary. Made in 2 pieces, a flat plate and a foot fastened together with bitumen. cf. U.8217 similar type.
8306A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver chain [A]. Fragments of. Made with the same sort of crochet link as the gold chain U.8002, giving a square section: but this is thicker and heavier. In 6 fragments. It was almost certainly linked up (like U.8002) with a few beads [B] found with it - 3 large conoids, 2 lapis, 1 silver, and 3 carnelian rings and 1 sard bugle, strung alternately. These are cataloged with the chain.
8460	(none)	1928,1009.335	(none)	Copper staple Shaped like a crotchy [croquet] hoop with end of legs slightly turned up.
8477A	(none)	(none)	B17392	[A-D] 4 copper staples. Made from a single piece of copper bent to form an arch, ends overlap at bottom [drawing] c. 1:1
8477B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 copper staples. Made from a single piece of copper bent to form an arch, ends overlap at bottom [drawing] c. 1:1
8477C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 copper staples. Made from a single piece of copper bent to form an arch, ends overlap at bottom [drawing] c. 1:1
8477D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 copper staples. Made from a single piece of copper bent to form an arch, ends overlap at bottom [drawing] c. 1:1
8535	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table Reddish clay Broken but virtually complete The stem with incised pattern
8536	(none)	1928,1010.480	(none)	Clay offering table. Reddish clay. With incised ornament on stem. Broken but virtually complete.
8537	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. Red clay. With incised ornament on stem. Broken but virtually complete.
8550B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Nails and holdfasts (copper) from the side of a wooden coffin. The nails have curled-over heads thus [drawing]. One holdfast thus [drawing]
8561A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Gold chains. Two. Made of crochet links, rather solid and heavy work. The two pieces lay one under the other and may perhaps have been joined originally: (A) was certainly joined up to the beads and whetstone (U.8562, U.8563). See field notes.
8561B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Gold chains. Two. Made of crochet links, rather solid and heavy work. The two pieces lay one under the other and may perhaps have been joined originally: (A) was certainly joined up to the beads and whetstone (U.8562, U.8563). See field notes.
8574	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inlay. Small plaques of mother of pearl. Mostly rectangular oblongs, a few triangles.