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.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
11804	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Bowl. Oval with silver tubular handle-attachments.
11821	(none)	1929,1017.63	(none)	Silver Bowl. Oval, usual tubular handle-rings of electrum. Distorted & in bad condition.
11827	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis & silver bugles, double conoids & balls (see Field Notes).
11835	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver Pin. With plain lapis ball head and [B, C] a pair of hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, each hair-ring, 2 spirals interlaced.
11836	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Mostly lapis, some silver & 2 carnelian, with lapis spacer in form of 2 birds (or beetles)?
11837A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver Ewer & [B] Patten. Corroded together. Ewer usual libation. (one side badly broken). Patten, with foot & carinated rim (also badly broken).
11837B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver Ewer & [B] Patten. Corroded together. Ewer usual libation. (one side badly broken). Patten, with foot & carinated rim (also badly broken).
11844	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 1, very long carnelian bugle; a few smaller beads, carnelian, lapis & silver. (see Field Notes).
11884	(none)	1929,1017.328	(none)	Beads. Lapis bugles & carnelian rings from a wreath of silver beech leaves. 1-kept.
11930	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis & silver double conoids (see Field Notes)
11934.1	(none)	(none)	(none)	[.1-.2] Earrings of gold and silver = a pair each composed of a spiral coil of silver wire (3 turns) diam 0033 inside which is a spiral coil (5 turns) of very thing old wire diam 002.
11935	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis double conoids, carnelian bugles, carnelian rings, small lapis balls, and silver beads (decayed) See Field Notes.
11953	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Pin. With lapis ball head (stem broken). [Type] V.
11968	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Disk. Filigree work. Originally mounted on a silver disk which is now mostly decayed.
11971	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis & silver. Double conoids and lentoids.
11975C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. (A) = set of 4, 2 carnelian & 2 lapis lentoids; (B)= set of very small lapis & some carnelian; [C] with them 1 earring, spiral coil of silver wire.
11994	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small lapis diamonds & balls, & some silver forming a bracelet. Also, 2 carnelian bugles.
11995	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Bracelet (broken) Plain circlet of fairly heavy wire.
11999	(none)	1929,1017.643	(none)	Copper Bowl. Oval, with flat base & end ribs; at the sides, double tubular handle-rings of silver. Broken but complete.
12044	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Pin. With ball head of lapis (stem broken) Type VI, B.
12045	(none)	1929,1017.562	(none)	Silver Pin. With ball head of lapis capped with silver (stem & head broken) Type VI, B.
12047	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis, gold & silver, with very small carnelian rings.
12056A.1	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group: [A.1-.2] (A) 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. (B) Lapis Lazuli beads: double conoids; (C) Copper Pin, plain head. (broken); [D-F] (D) 3 cockle shells: black & green paint.
12056A.2	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group: [A.1-.2] (A) 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. (B) Lapis Lazuli beads: double conoids; (C) Copper Pin, plain head. (broken); [D-F] (D) 3 cockle shells: black & green paint.
12057B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group: (A) Copper Pin bent head, Type VI, A. (B) Beads: Lapis lazuli double conoids and some silver; (C) cockle shell with paint; (D)[D.1-.2] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils.