Body Fragments
This category includes sherds or shards without rims, bases, or handles.
This category includes sherds or shards without rims or bases. These usually have some decorative element, i.e. paint, glaze, incised decoration, additions, or a combination of more than one. Most plain sherds/shards were not collected.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11687 | (none) | 1935,0113.631 | (none) | Clay Fragment. Geometrical design. | |
| 12774N.1 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. | |
 | 12780A | (none) | (none) | (none) | A collection representing different strata underlying the graves etcetera in the PG cemetery area. |
| 13051A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked. |
| 13752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragments of pottery. Black ware with diagonal and horizontal lines of burnishing. (Card Received from Mallowan, 1976.) |
| 14409 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherd from the upper part (neck) of a large vessel of pinkish drab clay, on which is part of a drawing in red lines of 2 lions facing each other on either side of a tree. [drawing] |
| 14457 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds of plain red (plum colored) ware from the same pot, a large open bowl; but making only a small fragment of it. (card received from Mallowan 1976) |
| 14458 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various examples of painted wares all found near level -800: in Field notes some recorded as high as -7.6m, the bulk as -8.2m. Not in catalog. |
| 14470 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Decorated, various. Not in catalog. |
| 14472 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pot sherds. Belonging to a single pot, painted, of Jemdet Nasr 3-color type: may for about 1/3 of the pot. |
| 14473 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various, colored, all collected from stratum between -7.5m & -8.5m, mostly about -8.2m. |
| 14486 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various. Representing the painted & decorated wares. |
| 14903 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various decorated examples collected from level -9m these fairly represent the contents of the stratum in colored pottery. Not in catalog. |
| 14910 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various. Collected from level -9m to -9.2m and reperesenting the painted pottery of that level. |
| 14913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Bare and a few other fragments and vase of burnished black ware. (Card received from Mallowan, 1976) |
| 14919 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various. Representing the decorated pottery from this stratum. |
| 14936 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various & representing the decorated wares of that stratum. Not in catalog. |
| 14947 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. Various. Collected from this stratum between -10m and 10.4m. Not in catalog. |
| 15578 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay pot. Painted: fragments. With reddish-brown paint on light red clay. Shape & design doubtful (fragments collected). |
| 15595 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherds. 2 from the same pot. TO painted ware with pictures of gazelles feeding, apparently with net in front of them. From a cup of Type CCCXLV. |
| 15597 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Painted sherds. Fragments of two cups. TO painted ware. Both certainly imperfect. Found all mixed up together. Type CCCXLV. |
| 15814 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Sherd. Baked clay. With incised design of palm bearing fruit from an offering table. |
| 16378 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherd. Engraved with figures from a presentation scene. Trail piece for cylinder seal. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17220 | (none) | 1935,0116.29 | (none) | Clay vessel. Fragment. Inscribed 5 (5/6) qa | |
| 18287 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Potsherd. Engraved on the wet clay with a figure of a bird. |