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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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 | |
| 9981 | (none) | 1935,0113.432 | (none) | Beads Double conoids of silver and lapis, small |
| 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) |
| 9990 | (none) | 1928,1010.296 | (none) | Finger ring. Plain spiral of thin silver wire. | |
| 9993 | (none) | 1928,1010.53 | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head set in silver Shaft broken Type V | |
| 9996 | (none) | 1928,1010.122 | (none) | Silver Pin With lapis head, plain ball Type V |
| 9997 | (none) | 1935,0113.434 | (none) | Bead Small double conoids of silver and lapis |
| 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 |
| 10016 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver tool Hung on a thin gold ring, which was attached to the silver belt |
| 10017 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Belt Fragments of Found lying round the waist |
| 10020 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dagger Copper blade Gold handle and silver grip The blade leaf-shaped with central rib the handle of gold over wood (decayed) with lunate pommel: the handle is broken and distorted: the silver grip (attached by gold studs) is much decayed Blade in poor condition |
| 10022 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dagger Copper blade, handle of silver-plate over wood In very bad condition, blade decayed and broken, and the silver all persished [drawing 2:5] |
| 10024A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Lamps Silver, two were found, one inside the other: the outer lamp completely decayed, the inner in good condition. |
Related Terms
Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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