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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11766C | 30-12-514 | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper chisel (broken but complete) Type V. [B] A copper pin plain head. [C] Also, earring of plain silver wire spiral coil. | |
 | 11777 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Type XIX. |
| 11778A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Silver Rings (20) and [B] lapis lazuli buttons (26) worn at the waist, either on a belt or on the fringe of a short cloak: see Field Notes. |
| 11781 | (none) | 1929,1017.491 | (none) | Harp. Fragments of i.e. the silver band at the foot of the upright beam, 15 copper nails serving as keys, & the silver cap of the beam, mushroom-shaped: also a quantity of inlay from the sounding-board. (see Field Notes). | |
| 11792 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Oblong. |
| 11794 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Broken, distorted & decayed hemispherical? Design incised & in relief-below, conventional mountains (engraved), above, in relief, procession of mountain goats. |
| 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. |
| 11822 | 30-12-426 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Silver Bowls. 1 inside the other, originally hemispherical with low foot-base. distorted. |
| 11822B | 30-12-426 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Silver Bowls. 1 inside the other, originally hemispherical with low foot-base. distorted. |
| 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). |
| 11839D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C based on museum divisions] Beads Lapis. Lentoids and bugles = probably both belonging to a wreath of silver beech leaves (which were all decayed). [D-E] With these, 2 hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, and [F] a large lunate earring of the Queen Shub-ad type, but in silver: a long silver wire may belong to this. |
| 11839E | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C based on museum divisions] Beads Lapis. Lentoids and bugles = probably both belonging to a wreath of silver beech leaves (which were all decayed). [D-E] With these, 2 hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, and [F] a large lunate earring of the Queen Shub-ad type, but in silver: a long silver wire may belong to this. |
| 11839F | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C based on museum divisions] Beads Lapis. Lentoids and bugles = probably both belonging to a wreath of silver beech leaves (which were all decayed). [D-E] With these, 2 hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, and [F] a large lunate earring of the Queen Shub-ad type, but in silver: a long silver wire may belong to this. |
| 11844 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 1, very long carnelian bugle; a few smaller beads, carnelian, lapis & silver. (see Field Notes). |
| 11883E | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 Roundels, [A-B] 2 of shell, [C] 1 of shale, [D] and an oval-topped shell button inlaid with a rosette of red & blue petals. D. 220mm [E] Broken pin of type VI, but with head missing; possibly this is all one composite pin-head, or perhaps only the roundels are such, as they would give just the effect of a lapis ball set in gold or silver. [drawing] |
| 11884 | (none) | 1929,1017.328 | (none) | Beads. Lapis bugles & carnelian rings from a wreath of silver beech leaves. 1-kept. |
| 11913 | 30-12-536 | (none) | (none) | Drinking tube. of silver, with short gold mouthpiece (broken) |
| 11930 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis & silver double conoids (see Field Notes) |
| 11931B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. (with this, [B-C] 2 silver finger rings: see box U.11930) |
| 11931C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. (with this, [B-C] 2 silver finger rings: see box U.11930) |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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