This category contains two sub-categories, the larger coffins where a corpse is buried, and the smaller urns where the cremated ashes are buried.  These can be made of ceramics or metal.  

Objects: Coffins and Burial Urns Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
(none) (none) 1930,1213.308 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1928,1010.666 (none) (none)
18447W (none) 1933,1013.167 (none) Group: [A] Iron dagger hilt. [B] Bronze situla. [C] Iron bangle. [D] Iron bangle, end broken. [E-F] 2 copper bracelet. [G] Iron bracelet. [H-J] 3 iron [rings] and [K-M] 3 copper rings. [N-S] 6 copper [arrowheads] and [drawing 1:1] [T-U] 2 iron arrowheads thus: [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:1] [V] Beads: a number of yellow paste double conoids, lapis tubes and balls, carnelian tubes and balls, beads of green stone, marble, blue paste, a carnelian bead section tubular and a glazed bead. Found in [drawing] [W] one clay coffin.
2972 (none) (none) (none) Pottery cist. Drab ware from tomb. Fragmentary.
2973 (none) (none) (none) Pottery cist. Small box with snake relief on outside and inside on bottom snake approaching throne.
6754A (none) 1927,0527.92 (none) [A-B] 2 copper graves. Both shaped with flat rims and two handles at each end. Covered over by wooden lid let down into ground by ropes. Corbelled burnt brick box built over them. Traces of rope remain on one handle of (A). Neo-Babylonian [Neo-Babylonian has been crossed out]. Entered in [illegible, maybe tab or lab] and no graves P.1, 2. E.
6754B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 copper graves. Both shaped with flat rims and two handles at each end. Covered over by wooden lid let down into ground by ropes. Corbelled burnt brick box built over them. Neo-Babylonian [Neo-Babylonian has been crossed out] Entered in [illegible, maybe tab or lab] and no graves P.1, 2. E.
7138A (none) (none) B16653 Larnax grave. Light drab. Broken. B.
7139 (none) (none) (none) Coffin. Baked clay. Bath shaped. B.
7141 (none) 1927,0527.265 (none) Clay sacrificial urn. Black painted decoration. Ribbed. Prehistoric. [A] Ox rib fragment found inside. E.
75 (none) (none) (none) Bronze funerary urn. frg. of very much broken up and oxidized. It contains human bones all broken up small, but shewing no signs of burning. [drawing] Bottom of urn set about 0.015 above the lowest edge of the walls
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