The internal structure of animals, formed mostly from calcium

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7068 (none) (none) B16360 Pin. Bone. Brown. E. [drawing 1:1]
71 (none) (none) (none) Bone handle(?) As if for a small surgical (?/ instrument decorated with incised lines and dots, pierced longitudinally. [drawing 1:1]
7141A (none) (none) (none) Clay sacrificial urn. Black painted decoration. Ribbed. Prehistoric. [A] Ox rib fragment found inside. E.
7505 (none) (none) (none) Bangle. Carnelian, lapis lazuli, white paste and crystal beads. 4 spacers, 2 of bone pierced 6 times and 2 of lapis lazuli pierced 3 times. 133 beads in all.
7551 (none) (none) B16771 Pin. Bone. Yellow. Point missing. Incised decoration at head. Hole perforated below decoration. [drawing 1:1]
7578 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Bone. Brown. Perforated below top. [drawing 1:1]
7685 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Bone. Yellowish. Cock's head? [drawing 1:1]
7975A (none) 1928,1010.711 (none) [B] Fragment of jawbone of cow? Also (A) another animal bone.
7975B (none) (none) (none) [B] Fragment of jawbone of cow? Also (A) another animal bone.
8020A (none) (none) (none) Two squares. [A] One of white bone. [B] One of dark grey stone. Each set with 5 inlay dots, black on the white square, white on the black, thus: [drawing 1:1]
8021 (none) (none) (none) Cuttle-fish bones. Probably for toilet purposes.
8454A (none) (none) (none) [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.
8454B (none) (none) (none) [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.
8454C (none) (none) (none) [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.
8454D (none) (none) (none) [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.
8454E (none) (none) (none) [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.
8509P (none) 1928,1009.401 (none) Set of buttons? [A-I] 9 black stone roundels, 8 of them inlaid with white dots, six round the edge and one central one: the 9th roundel plain. [J-O] And 6 bone squares, plain, one engraved. See field notes.[drawing] [P] And with them a bone rod with engraved lines.
8587B (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper bowl. Oval [Type] LXIII. Broken. (in it was found [B] part of the jawbone of a sheep(?) preserved with it)
8639B (none) (none) (none) Copper bucket [A]. The head of the corpse [B] was inside it and still is. Type 9.
8729 (none) (none) (none) Pin. Bone, brown. Rounded in section. Engraved oblique parallel lines running down pin. Lines filled in with white paint. Fragment. [drawing]
8961B (none) 1928,1009.204A (none) [A-C] Finger rings Silver: (2 others were broken and thrown away) Plain coils of silver wire one 2 1/2 coils and two 3 1/2 coils
9000 (none) 1928,1009.378 (none) Originally of wood (which has disappeared and left no trace at all), the top and edges encrusted with bone, shell, lapis and red paste tesserae set in bitumen: the bone tesserae are themselves engraved with geometrical and other patterns and inlaid with red paste and lapis. The board is in 2 unequal parts, rectangular, joined by a narrow neck: the upper part consists of 6 squares inside the border, the neck is 1 square wide and 2 long, the lower part had originally 4 rows of squares (12) and below those one or more rows of long triangular tesserae, shell and mother of pearl, with red paste triangles between them, the points of (one row of) the white tesserae pointing downwards. When found the object lay face downwards and on a slant: the upper part, nect, and 3 rows of squares of the lower part were complete, all except for one square at the bottom of the 4th row there was left there in position only a broken corner of a square. The broken square and 3 others, and also a number of triangles, were found separately in the dirt in front and below, but part of a row of white triangles (the red paste was reduced to powder) lay points upwards and face outwards against the back of the board: clearly the latter had been broken and doubled back: the tesserae at the line of the break had sprung and been dislodged. [drawing 1:5]
9019B (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper Ring. In position on [B} Finger bone.
9052 (none) (none) (none) Bone combs. Fragments of, too broken to mend. one thus [drawing 1:1] the other with a [undecipherable] strip below the teeth, 003 wide.
9053 (none) (none) (none) Bone pencils (or bodkins) Fragments of With bands of incised decoration, feather and herring-bone pattern.
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Antler - Bitumen - Leather - Reed - Shell - Textiles - Tooth - Wood - Plants

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Animal - Human