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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10818A | (none) | (none) | B17590 | Tomb Group A. A few odd beads round neck; decayed silver double conoids, one or two carnelian rings. B. [B and F] Pair of cockle shells corroded together, containing black paint. C. Decayed copper pin, rectangular in section. Type III variant. D. Few decayed shell rings worn on breast, probably originally a belt. E. Fragments of silver earrings | |
| 9703 | (none) | (none) | B17591 | Lead? and copper specimens Misshapen lumps | |
 | 9922A.2 | (none) | (none) | B17593 | [A.1-.2] Pair, (one broken) earrings. Silver. Large spiral type and three others, rather larger and thicker, same type. |
| 10193 | (none) | (none) | B17595 | Copper Reticule Manicure tools attached to a ring Tip missing Normal type | |
| 10191 | (none) | (none) | B17596 | Copper Pin Elongated knob head. Broken in 2 pieces. Type I | |
| 9656B | (none) | (none) | B17597 | Beads Gold. Large double conoids, small double conoids, tubular beads, barrel beads, fluted ball beads, flattened double conoids, double conoids of spiral wire, circles of spiral wire, 2 elongated double conoids; 4 ring spacers for 3 strings, gold bar spacers (square in section) for 20 strings, 3 gold leaves with spacers for 2 strings. Carnelian. Barrel beads, ball beads, bugles, double conoids, ring beads, 1 worked barrel bead with white pattern, flattened tabloid with gold suspender. Lapis. Large double conoids, small double conoids, fluted ball beads, double conoid with gold suspender for 2 strings. | |
| 11211 | (none) | (none) | B17599 | Beads. (7). 1 Flattened steatite double conoid-grey. 1 carnelian double conoid. 1 black steatite bead with incised markings; shaped like a truncated cone. 2 carnelian ring beads. 1 gold ring bead. 1 grey steatite bead square in section - tubular. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 9729A | (none) | (none) | B17603 | [A-B] 2 Copper Loops With a thin copper stem to each. Possibly from the sole of a sandal used as a fastener for laces? [drawing] 1:1 | |
| 9729B | (none) | (none) | B17603 | [A-B] 2 Copper Loops With a thin copper stem to each. Possibly from the sole of a sandal used as a fastener for laces? [drawing] 1:1 | |
| 8466E | (none) | (none) | B17613 | [A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV. |
| 9607 | (none) | (none) | B17625 | Necklace 9 diamond shaped gold beads; gold ball beads; carnelian ball beads; ring beads; double conoids; and double axe shaped. A few lapis and 1 banded sard lentoid. For order of stringing see Field Notes. About 150 in all. |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17628 | (none) | |
| 10426A | (none) | (none) | B17629 | [A-B] Beads Disks of lapis set in gold rings, diameter 0025 Probably these were strung up with very small lapis beads of which great numbers were found in the soil (with the ring-set disks) by the side of the box and just above it. | |
| 10425 | (none) | (none) | B17630 | Beads a few gold lentoids & others | |
| 11147.3 | (none) | (none) | B17633 | Beads. Lapis bugles and carnelian rings being the remains of a headdress (the rest had been plundered). |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17636 | (none) | |
| 9985 | (none) | (none) | B17642 | Beads double conoids of gold and lapis small Strung in groups of 4 or 8, in alternate colors | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17649 | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17650 | (none) | |
| 9780A | (none) | (none) | B17654 | Gold Chain The usual type with double-twisted links giving a square section | |
| 9780B | (none) | (none) | B17655 | Gold Chain The usual type with double-twisted links giving a square section |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17657 | (none) | |
| 9784 | (none) | (none) | B17668 | Beads 1 Small gold 6 small lapis; and a large number of carnelian rings, all strung up together: see Field Notes. |
| 9931 | (none) | (none) | B17676 | Gold earring Coil with slightly thickened ends | |
| 9783 | (none) | (none) | B17677 | Beads 14 gold ring spacers and a quantity of small lapis beads and carnelian rings: for order see Field Notes. With them are mixed the smaller lapis beads mentioned in the Field Notes as probably belonging to the headdress. [drawing 1:1] |
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