Shell
The hard protective outer case of a mollusk or an egg. Can be used for inlays, decoration, or for holding pigments or makeup.
The hard protective outer case of a mollusk or an egg. Can be used for inlays, decoration, or for holding pigments or makeup.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8642 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell carving of a panther's head in the round.White shell. the line of the mane was filled in with black paste. The tongue is of red stone, the eyes were inlaid with red and black. Very fine miniature work. The piece is complete: it is cut off at the neck, and was clearly meant to be inset in a body. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8643 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers: above, banquet scene with 2 seated figures, 1 attendant, and shrine door. Below, one human figure and fighting animals. |
| 8646 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Very much worn: scene of fighting animals. |
| 8661 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Cut as ladle With bird's head above, the eye inlaid with lapis Decayed and in poor condition |
| 8668 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. In poor condition. |
| 8678 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cockle shells. Containing green and red paint. |
| 8679 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Large shell. Cut as a lamp or ladle with a bird's head above the opening. |
| 8701 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell? Surface powdered through fire. 2 registers: Geometric designs consisting of circles and lines well spread apart radiating from them. [drawing] Design mostly obliterated. Broken in 2 halves. |
| 8713 | (none) | (none) | B16862 | Cylinder seal Shell, highly polished Geometric design. Triangles, short straight lines running parallel to one another and designs resembling a coiling serpent [drawing of serpent shape] | |
| 8792 | (none) | 1928,1009.19 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Two registers. Above: a banquet scene. Below: men and animals. |
| 8800 | (none) | 1928,1009.51 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Yellowish. Crescent moon on post and 3 errect figures with right hands upraised approaching to worship. |
| 8845 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Subject obliterated pending treatment. |
| 8897 | (none) | (none) | B16868 | Cylinder seal. White shell. Seated goddess with star and moon and 4 standing figures. | |
| 8915A | (none) | 1928,1009.393 | (none) | [A-B] Two shell plaques. Engraved with figures of goats in wooded country rather rough and poor work. [drawing] |
| 8915B | (none) | 1928,1009.394 | (none) | [A-B] Two shell plaques. Engraved with figures of goats in wooded country rather rough and poor work. [drawing] |
| 8935A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 handles? Apparently 3 rods made of rings alternately white shell and black shale (?) strung on a reed, the whole ending in a shell handle-knob. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8935B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 handles? Apparently 3 rods made of rings alternately white shell and black shale (?) strung on a reed, the whole ending in a shell handle-knob. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8935C | (none) | (none) | B16749 | [A-C] 3 handles? Apparently 3 rods made of rings alternately white shell and black shale (?) strung on a reed, the whole ending in a shell handle-knob. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8996 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell roundel. Convex above with incised 8 point star, the petals inlaid with lapis and red paste, 3 red and 5 blue of which one is missing. [drawing] |
| 8997 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell roundel. With 8-pointed star rosette engraved on the convex surface, the petals originally inlaid with red and blue, but the inlay missing. The shell is mounted on a disk of red limestone. |
| 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] | |
| 9049 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell White Curvilinear desig 6 holes partially perforated on body of seal to admit inlay. No trace of inlay left. [drawing] |
| 9050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell White. A seated divinity and 3 standing figures. Poor condition. |
| 9069 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell Subject indistinct Rampant lion and rampant gazelle. |
| 9112 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Set of shell plaques. 4 are engraved with figures of animals, 2 of bulls, one of a stag, one a gazelle, all with foliage behind: the engraved lines were filled in with color, black for the animals, red for the scenery. The order of the 4 main plaques is certain, one above the other, bull, bull, stag, gazelle: with them were 2 pieces with eye design and the position of these is uncertain: but as a lapis border on the right was pink, the latter was probably the outside and the eye plaques came on the left. With these was found a single piece of mother of pearl border (?) with a circle on it at one end on one side, and at each end on the other. The whole restored as a single piece. Inlay or other incrustation, 3 plaques of shell with engravings of cattle, one above the other, between them and above blue lapis strips, red limestone down the front against the heads of bulls. The engraved line were filled in with black color for animals and red for landscape. [drawing] A 4th, broken, plaque with a gazelle was found, and 2 'eye' pieces. |