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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)
9513 (none) (none) B16941 Cylinder seal Dark green steatite The eagle grasping 2 stags
9514 (none) (none) B16942 Earring Gold [drawing] 1:1
9515 (none) (none) B16943 Beads 5 gold double conoids 2 carnelian lentoids 1 agate lentoid 1 agate bugle Strung alternatively (see Field Notes)
9516 (none) (none) B16944 Copper pin Plain head Broken and in bad condition Type IX
9517 (none) (none) B16945 Finger Ring Copper Attached to it part of a second ring of silver Plain hoop with ends just meeting With this fragments of a silver earring
9518 (none) (none) B17347 Copper Spear Poker type, square-section with short square-section tang Type VI.
9525 (none) (none) B17317 Copper Tool Triangular top (broken) [drawing] 1:1 Type VII
9531 (none) (none) B16912 Ear-ring=gold 1 1/2 spiral with ribbed crescent ends. [drawing] 1:1
9532 (none) (none) B16913 Earring: silver a double ring of plain wire
9533 (none) (none) B16914 Earring: silver Two spiral rings, each with heavy lunar ends, interlaced
9534 (none) (none) B16915 Copper holdfast(?) (broken) [drawing ]1:1
9535 (none) (none) B16916 Copper Pin Plain tang head (broken) Type I
9536 (none) (none) B16917 Copper Blade Long triangular shape [drawing] Type IV
9537A (none) (none) B16918 Beads A/ Short string, long carnelian bugle, and 3 smaller ditto., separated by silver balls. B/ Diamond shaped lapis beads alternating with flat silver-plate beads. [drawing] C/ Mixed string of small gold fluted balls, lapis, carnelian, agate and paste, restrung mostly in original order (see Field Notes) except that there are no silver beads: in the field notes the 2 strings B & C were probably confused)
9538A (none) (none) B16911A 3 Haematite Weights [A-C] Lentoid shaped. Probably goldsmiths weights Type II Published in Vol. II The Royal Cemetery
9539 (none) (none) B17147 Vase Oolite? Grey Probably cut down in antiquity from a tall spill vase. Surface badly chipped and pitted Type L1.
9540 (none) (none) B17682 Ear Ring Silver [drawing]
9543A (none) (none) B17580 [A-B] Pair. earrings. Silver. 2 silver beads corroded to one of them. [drawing]
9544 (none) (none) B17579 Finger ring. Silver. 2 coils. [drawing]
9549 (none) (none) B17201 Terracotta-Sheep Reddish clay Miniature Inscribed on one side Legs missing Inscription: Nam-REC 316 agrig dNannar Nam =Nam-so, Overseer of Nannar. [additional drawing on back] [drawing 1:1]
9560 (none) (none) B17322 Copper Spout? Shaped like a truncated cone Solid casting
9576 (none) (none) B17318 Copper Pin Plain tang head (broken) Type I
9584 (none) (none) B17279 Copper Axe Turned over tang [drawing] Type XI
9585A (none) (none) B16946 [A-B] 2 Cockle shells Containing black paint
9586 (none) (none) B16947 Cylinder Seal Haematite Black Seated god greeting 2 other divinities who approach bearing offerings? All wearing the horned headdress. Behind throne a palm tree? Attribute: Cresent moon.

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