Headdress

Headdresses contain multiple items from wreaths and diadems to hair combs and rings. Most of these are made of precious metals and/or beads of semi-precious stone. Usually, the more elaborate the headdresses are, the higher the status of the person.

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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)
11230G	(none)	(none)	(none)	Head Ornament. (A) Gold ribbon. (B) Wreath of carnelian & lapis lazuli beads with gold mulberry leaf pendants. (C) [C.1-.2] Pair large lunate gold earrings. (D) Silver head ornament with inlaid rosette finials-gold, silver & shell. (E) [E and K] 2 silver pins with bent heads capped by a lapis ball head. Type VI. (F) Necklace of fluted lapis ball beads. (G) Frontlet of beads in 7 rows, gold, bugle, carnelian ring beads, lapis bugles. (H) Necklace of lapis & gold triangles. (I) Necklace of alternate lapis & silver double conoids. (J) Miniature vase of light drab clay, part of rim missing.
11422	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Diadem. Thin gold plate. [drawing]
11441A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group. Consisting of [A](1) a spiral band of narrow gold ribbon (broken); [B](2) seven beads of agate, carnelian, steatite, shell (?), lapis, lapis, paste; [C](3) a copper pin 019 long (broken into 3 pieces).
11452C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group. Consisting of [A] (1) a cylinder seal of red baked clay with white slip: in poor condition but interesting for its fabric. It is attached to part of a copper pin. Inscription EN-dUtu(?); [B] (2) a few beads of lapis and silver, mixed types; [C] (3) a silver hair-ring, 5 spiral coils of thin wire; [D] (4) a copper pin, point missing.
11521A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid.
11534A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold hair rings. Spiral coils of gold wire. A pair.
11555A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 Gold hair-rings. Spiral coils of thick gold wire.
11557	(none)	(none)	(none)	(beads) Wreath. Small gold leaves & tiny lapis ball beads (see Field Notes). (NB = most of the beads are in the mixed collection from the graves: a certain number kept with the leaves show the right type to be used for re-stringing.
11558	(none)	(none)	(none)	(beads) Wreath. Small gold ring pendants hanging from 3 rows of lapis & carnelian beads (See Field Notes) (NB most of the beads are in the mixed collection: than kept with the gold rings show the types to be used in re-stringing.)
11594	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Frontlet. With this, 3 beads (2 copper balls and 1 big carnelian bugle), 2 silver earrings with lunate ends, and a copper reticule.
11706	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Ring. Plain thin gold wire & 2 silver spiral-coiled wire hair-rings.
11735	(none)	1929,1017.51	(none)	Gold Diadem. Plain strip of rather heavy metal with a hole at each end.
11736A	(none)	1929,1017.22	(none)	[A-B] Gold Hair-rings. 2 spiral coils of gold wire.
11742B	(none)	1929,1017.240	(none)	Beads. Frontlet. Small gold ring pendants [A] (13) string on 3 rows of beads [B]: between each pair one very small lapis bead, one carnelian tubular bead, one very small lapis bead.
11770	(none)	(none)	(none)	Frontlet. Gold ring pendants (13) separated by carnelian rings & small lapis bugles. (see Field Notes).
11771	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Diadem. Plain except for a border of half-punctured dots.
11772	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Diadem. Plain except for a border of half-punctured dots.
11776	(none)	1929,1017.11	(none)	Gold diadem. On to a background of tubular beads of gold and silver, 3 strands wide and the beads set in vertical bands of each metal, wire hung small figures of 2 seated bulls and also bunches of leaves and pomegranates, front of gold and glass paste, and gold rosettes. For more see field notes. The silver beads have all decayed (like the gold they were of very thin metal over a tubular core) and so have the globular paste fruits and silver pomegranates: the gold is very thin and in a bad state owing to the swelling of the bitumen core. The animals were secured by a thread passing through the body and held below by a minute carnelian ball bead.
11799C.3	(none)	1929,1017.42	(none)	Frontlet. [A-B] 2 gold chains; [C.1-.2] 2 carnelian bugles; [C.3] 1 gold bugle; [C.4-5] 2 lapis ball beads.
11809A	(none)	1929,1017.12	(none)	[A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
11809B	30-12-618	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
11809C	30-12-619	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
11809D	30-12-756	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Gold Frontlets. Each with 2 lengths of gold chain, 2 lapis & 1 gold lentoid beads, 2 carnelian rings.
11905	30-12-757	(none)	(none)	Gold Ribbon. On the head of the central person in the domed building.
11906	(none)	1929,1017.47	(none)	Frontlet. An ellipse of gold plate engraved with an 8-pointed star of the conventional type: at each end a wire for attachment, one ending in a loop, the other in a wooden button.