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)
10324	(none)	(none)	(none)	4 Copper Hafts Corroded together. These consist of wooden stems circular in section forming the core for copper casing. At one end a copper holdfast is rivetted into the wood. Possibly these may have been the legs of a low offering table. [drawing]
10362	(none)	1928,1010.354	(none)	Copper Rein Piece Originally this must have been attached to the ends of an animals halter. Shaped like a double circular pulley. Covex at either end [drawing]
10363A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 Clay Nails Baked Roughly shaped [drawing]
10437A	(none)	1928,1010.253	(none)	[A-B] Shell Carving 2 pieces found together; floral motive; on one (A) is a tiny lion. Use unknown. [drawing] 1:1 A [drawing] 1:1 B
10437B	(none)	(none)	B16753	[A-B] Shell Carving 2 pieces found together; floral motive; on one (A) is a tiny lion. Use unknown. [drawing] 1:1 A [drawing] 1:1 B
10438E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Chariot For design in general see notes The various parts are: A. Six lions heads in gold with lapis eyes and chests of lapis and shell. These are fixed to a board-edge. B. Small heads of lions and bulls in gold fixed to the top rail with blue and white inlay between them. C. 2 large panthers heads in silver with lapis eyes. D. 2 small lion heads in silver with inlay chests of shell and lapis; from the front of the chariot: with blue and white inlay between. One head completely destroyed. E. Quantities of inlay
10441	(none)	1928,1010.67	(none)	Narrow gold [struck out: undecipherable] edging, three-sided, like the gold edging on the base of the harp: it was found by the side of the box (near side) especially towards the middle of it, and associated with fragments of narrow lapis strips and shell inlay figures: Probably it formed, with the lapis, a frame for the decorative mosaic panel.
10442	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mosaic in shell and lapis Part of the decoration of the big box, occupying the middle of the near side. The background is of lapis, the figures shell. All had fallen from their position and in all cases the face of the shell was so decayed that little of the design remains. Most of the design was figures, but there were also bits of purely decorative design. One part of each was sufficiently in situ to be waxed: the rest picked out in fragments.
10475	(none)	(none)	B17066	Copper Object ? armour ? But it was apparently nailed into a wooden background. [drawing] Embossed on it two figures of lions and two of men and below, a disk with 8-petalled rosette.
10525	(none)	1928,1010.477	(none)	Stone offering table Calcite White Standing on 3 short cylindrical feet. the feet are perforated both vertically and horisontally possibly to allow of attachment to a wooden stand part missing [drawing] 1:5 Type__
10555A	(none)	(none)	B17353	Copper Nails From the axles of the two wagons [A-B] 2 large bent nails with stems flattened and round heads L 0185 [C-G] 5 with coiled heads L 0105
10582E	(none)	1928,1010.680	(none)	Contents of Burial 789 D. A. [.1-.2] Pair of large gold lunate earrings. B. Beads of gold, lapis and carnelian rings (double conoids) C. Silver Pin with lapis head D. [.1-.2] Silver earrings, plain wire spiral coils, E. Remains of Mosaic of lapis with very thin gold leaf and 2 ivory bulls legs.
10748	(none)	(none)	B17245	Offering Table Baked clay Champagne vase type Combed decoration and criss-cross incisions above stem Badly broken Type__
10914	(none)	1928,1010.136	(none)	Silver Offering-table In two parts which now though corroded together are displaced The foot is funnel-shaped and was made solid by a filling of bitumen: the top is covered with a silver cap: on this rested a tray with shallow upturned rim [drawing] [Type] XXXVIII
11231	(none)	(none)	B16909	Obsidian Nail. Miniature. Square in section. T Shaped top. [drawing 1:1]
11928A.1	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A.1-.3] Limestone Offering Dish [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.
12109	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Cramp. Body of cramp shaped like a V with hoop shaped top and at right angles to it and welded onto it a second hoop. [drawing not to scale]
12176	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inlay. From a box? Squares & triangles of mother of pearl, red & black stone.
12182	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Peg. bent at right angles. Stem is triangular in section and hallowed to form a runnel.
12213	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Chain. Broken & decayed. Double link giving a square section, & 1 carnelian double conoid bead. Originally a frontlet.
12256E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Wreath of 16 gold beech leaves on lapis & carnelian strings. [B] (2) Frontlet of gold, lentoid shaped, rosette decoration on long gold wire ties, looped one end, the other end consists of a carnelian ring bead the wire being coiled to prevent it from falling off. Frontlet is bent double. [C] (3) Gold coil earring. 2 1/2 coils. [D] (4) Gold coil earring. 1 1/2 coils. [E-F] (5) 2 gold chains. Double twisted links giving a square section. Strung with 1 gold facetted lentoid & 2 lapis ditto.with carnelian ring beads in between. [G] (6) Whetstone. [H] (7) Silver pin with lapis ball head & gold cap, straight, circular in section. [I] (8) Beads. Large carnelian bugles and small lapis double conoids & 1 jasper bugle; flattened carnelian double conoids & flattened rectangular lapis beads one with a rib down middle. [J] (9) Copper Axe. Type XIX. [K](10) Bowl. White calcite. [Type IX] [drawing] [L](11) Stone bowl. White calcite. [M] (12) Ostrich shell badly broken. Traces of red paint. [N] (13) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli 2 registers: above, banquet scene; below, men fighting crossed animals- -lions.
12319	(none)	(none)	(none)	Offering table. White limestone. Engraved with palm design. Top tray badly broken.
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.
12327	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone Inlay. Fragment. Bald-headed Sumerian punting a bellum. Same as U.11400.
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.