Metal
Metals are material, element, compound, or alloy that is hard, opaque, shiny and has good electrical and thermal conductivity, and is malleable. They can be hammered or cast into various shapes. Soft metals like gold and silver have been used longer, with metals such as copper, bronze, and iron coming later. Alloys are the creation of a new material from the combination of two or more elements in a certain proportion. Most of the time it is hard to tell the alloys apart from original elements, like in the case of copper. This is why they are grouped together below. Metals are usually used for tools, weapons, vessels, and statues.
Metals are material, element, compound, or alloy that is hard, opaque, shiny and has good electrical and thermal conductivity, and is malleable. They can be hammered or cast into various shapes. Soft metals like gold and silver have been used longer, with metals such as copper, bronze, and iron coming later. Alloys are the creation of a new material from the combination of two or more elements in a certain proportion. Most of the time it is hard to tell the alloys apart from original elements, like in the case of copper. This is why they are grouped together below. Metals are usually used for tools, weapons, vessels, and statues.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7623 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bangle. Silver. Poor condition. Small piece missing. Found with U.7624, 7575, 7567 |
| 7634 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Knife. Copper. 4 nobs, 2 on either side of short metal shaft originally intended to fit into corresponding holes in the wooden handle none of which remains. Between the nobs a hole perforated through the shaft probably in order to hold two corresponding nobs in the wooden handle. |
| 7644 | (none) | 1928,1009.98 | (none) | Necklace. 12 double conoid carnelian beads. 5 double conoid silver beads. 1 dark green lentoid, basic diorite? All charred by fire. |
| 7684 | (none) | 1928,1009.336 | (none) | Chain. Bronze. Circular links. Fragment. 3 portions. | |
| 7693 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis. |
| 7695A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 hair? rings or ear rings. Gold. Thickened boat shaped ends. [drawing] |
| 7696 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pendant. Gold. Gold ring with gold filigree support dividing it to hold 4 small gold cones made of spiral gold wire. Gold foil clip attached to top of pendant. |
| 7850 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper knife blade. thick rivets for haft. II. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Thickly covered with corrosion but intact. [drawing] |
| 7852 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. rather slender and light type. XIX. [drawing] |
| 7853 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pronged tool. [drawing] |
| 7854 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper rod. Square in section, tapered to ends, one end flattened to chisel edge the other pointed. Chisel 1. |
| 7855 | (none) | 1928,1009.212 | (none) | Copper axe. Lower part of socket broken away, much of the wood left in the socket. XIX. [drawing] |
| 7857 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Slender type. Socket broken in two lengthwise and part missing. |
| 7859 | (none) | 1928,1009.339 | (none) | Copper reticule. Cone-shaped with base knob. In it 4 small copper toilet instruments held together by a copper ring. | |
| 7860 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule. Cone-shaped with base knob. In it 3 small copper toilet instruments held together by a copper ring. |
| 7861 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper adze. [drawing] |
| 7862 | (none) | 1928,1009.287 | (none) | Copper dagger. The blade had originally a tang fixed by rivets into a wooden handle: tang broken: the handle was decorated with small copper studs driven into the wood so that the heads touched each other: traces of the handle remained and some of the studs were corroded together in position. |
| 7863 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of lapis lazuli and gold shaft has round section. Head thus: [drawing] |
| 7864 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin with ball head of white shell (?) set in silver as in U.7863, the metal is a cap of thin foilover the ball. Broken, and the head in bad condition. |
| 7865 | (none) | 1928,1009.273 | (none) | Copper knife. Leaf-shaped with slight central rib: short tang with rivets broken off. [drawing]. | |
| 7868 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper chisel. Fairly heavy metal, rectangular section, flattened to convex cutting edge. [drawing] |
| 7869 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper cullender. Flat rim, thin metal: the cup pierced with 6 rows of small holes: handle made in one piece with rim, fairly solid, rectangular section, bent over at end, clearly having been in a wooden handle. [drawing] |
| 7870 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Fairly heavy metal, very slight rim along edge. Cracked and distorted but intact. III |
| 7871 | (none) | 1928,1009.290 | (none) | Copper axe. Fairly heavy metal with curved cutting edge, end bent over for fixing in handle. XI. [drawing] |
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