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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)
10898A (none) (none) B17072C [A-B] 2 Silver Tumblers Fluted Both intact Exactly like U 10892 [Type] LXXI
10901A (none) (none) B16711 [A-B] Silver Cockle Shells a pair fastened together by corrosion, presumably containing paint
10902 (none) (none) B17070 Silver Bowl Hemispherical with low circular base Type III
10904 (none) (none) B17071 Silver Bowl Hemispherical with slight base, part of rim missing Type III
10907 (none) (none) B17069 Two Silver Bowls corroded together. both very badly distorted Measurements impossible Type__
10910 (none) (none) B17548 Silver Pot apparently thus- but squashed right in [drawing] (inside it is part of the lapis rod U.10911) Type [struck out: "XXXIII"]
10911 (none) (none) B17548 Drinking tube made of a very thin copper pipe encased in short tubes of lapis lazuli 002-0035 long. (broken).
10916 (none) (none) B17065 Silver Bulls Head With long horns and inlaid eyes The muzzle has been damaged, and one of the horns broken off and re-attached. It came from a wooden statue, judging from the fact that nothing else was found to which it could have belonged: the shell plaques U.10917 A and B must have been on its chest as usual Photo 1020 (a)
10917B (none) (none) B16746 Shell Plaque, 2, belonging to U.10916 (A, B) A= Silhouetted plaque of 2 goats on either side of a plant growing on a mountain; usual heraldic type of animals rampant Photo 1066 [drawing] 1:1 B= Silhouetted plaque, a lion seizing an antelope (lions head missing). Photo 1066 1130c [drawing]
10921 (none) (none) B17128 Stone Vase White veined calcite Spill Vase [drawing] Type 86
10930 (none) (none) B16707 Gold Bowl. Oval. With slight rim, elliptical raised base, and double ribs at either and running from base to rim; in the middle of each side, just below the rim, a handle attached for a wire handle (missing) made of two short vertical and gold tubes. Slightly distorted.
10932B (none) (none) B16710 [A-B] Gold Cockle-shells. Pair. modeled on the real, the ribs rendered by engraved lines. Inside one is green paint. [drawing]
10933A.1 (none) (none) B17712A Pair Gold earrings. [A.1-.2] Grotesquely large examples of the common lunate type (hollow). Found on the head of the queen immediately below the ribbon headdress.
10934 (none) (none) B17711a Head-dress. Consisting of a mass of gold ribbon (U.17711A). See Field Notes. See also Nos. U.10935-9
10935A (none) (none) B17708 [A] Gold ring pendants 19 in all strung up with lapis & carnelian bead (see field notes) & worn round the head below the leaf bands U.10936 and U.10937. [drawing 1:1]
10935B.1 (none) (none) B17709 [B] Gold mulberry leaf pendants in all : on the tip of each a carnelian (some missing) strung up with lapis & carnelian beads & worn round the head between U.10934 and U.10936. See field notes. [drawing 1:1]
10936 (none) (none) B17711 Gold Leaf Pendants. Each formed of 3 narrow leaves: on the tip of each a carnelian. With the leaves were gold rosettes having inlaid petals. These were strung with beads of lapis and carnelian, carnelian pear pendants and (apparently) small gold spacers. Worn on the head above the other chains. See Field Notes. [drawing 1:1]
10937 (none) (none) B16693 Gold Head Ornament. Pin rising to big flat palm from which rise 7 branches thinning down to wires: these are connected high up by a twisted gold wire: at the end of each is a gold rosette with lapis centre (if there were petals of inlay these are missing). [drawing]
10938 (none) (none) B16908 Gold Triangle-headed pin. ? Feather holder? [drawing 1:1]
10940 (none) (none) B16729 Gold Pin. With lapis ball head. Type V. On the right upper arm with the cylinder seal U.10939
10948A (none) (none) (none) Gold Crown. Formed of beads and figurines, etc. sewn onto a fillet of leather. The background was composed of minute beads of lapis and gold--the latter short tubular lengths. Against these stood out: (A) 4 pairs of animals, viz. 2 antlered stags. 2 bearded bulls, 2 gazelles, 2 rams. (B) Small 8-petalled rosettes. (C) Plant ornaments, viz. Ears of corn, pomegranates, bunches composed of 3 fruit and 3 leaves, plants with rough stems (gold-leaf over silver) and gold and carnelian pods. (D) 8 Twisted wire palmettes for the order of them see field notes.
10952 (none) (none) B16713 Lapis handle (?) Octagonal in section with through it a hole increasing in size to an oval 20mm, long. [drawing]
10954 (none) (none) B17539 Copper Pot. [Type] XXVII. [drawing]
10960 (none) (none) B17144 Vase. White calcite. Chip missing from rim. Type 71. [drawing]
10963 (none) (none) B17139 Bowl. Translucent white calcite. Type XII. [drawing]

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