Silver
Silver is a soft, white, lustrous metal. It is highly malleable, and has a low melting point, making it easy to cast. It can be produced as a by-product of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining. It can be highly polished, leading to a very reflective surface. Most of the silver found at Ur is in jewelry, but sometimes it is made into axes or mirrors. These are found mainly in the royal tombs.
Silver is a soft, white, lustrous metal. It is highly malleable, and has a low melting point, making it easy to cast. It can be produced as a by-product of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining. It can be highly polished, leading to a very reflective surface.
Most of the silver found at Ur is in jewelry, but sometimes it is made into axes or mirrors. These are found mainly in the royal tombs.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9830 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver bracelet. Broken. [drawing] |
| 9853 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ear Rings 3 attached to one another; the largest being of copper with flattened lunate ends, the 2 smaller, single coils of silver? |
| 9863C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Gold Chains. [C] 1 silver chain. (badly broken, poor condition) [D] 1 large facetted gold lentoid base; [E] 4 large facetted lapis lentoid beads; Gold chains, normal type with double twisted links giving a square section. Silver chain similar. Worn round the head. For details see Field Note. |
| 9869 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin with 1 silver earring corroded on to one end. Flattened lunate ends. Pin has elongated knob head. Type I. |
| 9880 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver earring Lunate ends |
| 9920 | (none) | (none) | B17585 | Beads Lapis double conoids and a few silver balls |
| 9921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Silver balls and lapis double conoids. (from the neck) |
| 9930 | (none) | (none) | B17589 | Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver. |
| 9935A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead. |
| 9935B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead. |
| 9936 | (none) | (none) | B16734 | Beads, etc. From a diadem. 1 large gold lentoid bead; 4 ditto. lapis; and with them fragments of a silver chain. See field notes. |
| 9938 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Dagger Narrow straight-sided blade with short tang (broken) and rivets. The handle had been studded with silver nails. |
| 9944 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Dagger With the blade is preserved part of the wooden handle bound and studded with silver Type__ |
| 9948 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver- earring Coil with lunate ends Type__ |
| 9962 | (none) | (none) | B17075 | Silver Pin The shaft bent, & pierced Lapis ball head Type VI | |
| 9966 | (none) | (none) | (none) | A number of Silver earrings. |
| 9968 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver earring Small with lunate ends |
| 9980A | (none) | (none) | B16786 | [A-C] Silver earrings Plain spiral coils of silver wire | |
| 9982 | (none) | (none) | B16785 | Silver Pin With fluted lapis ball head Type V | |
| 9984 | (none) | (none) | B17681 | Silver Pin With lapis ball head (shaft broken) Type V | |
| 9986 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Finger Ring Silver Flat silver band decorated with minute cable ornament around it: edges plain. (broken) |
| 9998A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Silver- earrings 4 Plain coils of silver wire, spiral |
| 9999C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver |
| 10012 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lump of silver Very solid and heavy: it looks as if it might once have been an inscribed tablet, but it is completely decayed and the surface perished |
| 10014 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Dagger The blade is of gold, leaf shaped with central rib The hilt has a gold guard studded with gold nails: the grip was of silver-plate over wood, the pommel of silver-plate studded with gold. The sheath was of silver. The silver of the hilt has perished altogether: the sheath is preserved in poor condition. It was fixed to a silver belt |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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