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)
12356 (none) 1929,1017.624 (none) Copper stag. Statue in the round mounted on a square base but possibly from a wooden harp. The inlays rest in the crook of the [illegible] of a plant whose long leaves run on each side of the head. Decayed and broken = altogether in a bad state. For measurement drawing see field notes. [All photos show in situ].
11920A (none) 1929,1017.628 (none) [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval. Types III and LXIII
12051A (none) 1929,1017.629 (none) [A] Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. Inside it a [B] shallow cup of white limestone with nicked rim. [Type] XLIII.
11821 (none) 1929,1017.63 (none) Silver Bowl. Oval, usual tubular handle-rings of electrum. Distorted & in bad condition.
(none) (none) 1929,1017.630 (none) (none)
11920B (none) 1929,1017.631 (none) [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval.
11917 (none) 1929,1017.632 (none) 3 Copper Vessels. (A) Shallow dish, circular with narrow trough spout; (B) similar; (C) A strainer, with handle (broken)
11540A (none) 1929,1017.633 (none) Copper vessels. An oval bowl and inside it a hemispherical bowl. Also fragments of a long-handled strainer. [Type] LXIII, III
12695C (none) 1929,1017.634 (none) Group: [A-B] 1) Two silver earrings: one of normal, small, lunate type 1 1/2 coils; the others also consists of 1 1/2 coils but one end consist of a broad and thin elliptical bend thus - [drawing] [C] 2) Copper bowl. Hemispherical [D] 3) Stone bowl. Containing traces of a reddish pigment? Limestone. [drawing]
11918A (none) 1929,1017.635 (none) [A-C] Copper Tumblers. 10 in all. 3 sets, nested, of 3 each, and of 4.
(none) (none) 1929,1017.636 (none) (none)
12736 (none) 1929,1017.637 (none) Copper lamp. Normal type, cut to shape of shell. Trough spout broken.
(none) (none) 1929,1017.638 (none) (none)
11951 (none) 1929,1017.639 (none) Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. Type III
12660 (none) 1929,1017.640 (none) Stone bowl. Calcite. Type same as U.12321. LXXI.
(none) (none) 1929,1017.641 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.642 (none) (none)
11999 (none) 1929,1017.643 (none) Copper Bowl. Oval, with flat base & end ribs; at the sides, double tubular handle-rings of silver. Broken but complete.
(none) (none) 1929,1017.644 (none) (none)
11523A (none) 1929,1017.645 (none) Group of copper objects. Found together. (A) Copper bowl, hemispherical. Type III. (B) Copper Adze. (C) Copper dagger riveted tang. (D) Copper knife.
(none) (none) 1929,1017.647 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.648 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.65 (none) (none)
12123 (none) 1929,1017.650 (none) Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. [Type] III
12651 (none) 1929,1017.651 (none) Copper bowl. Hemispherical. [Type] III.

Child Terms

Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead - Silver