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.
Objects: Silver Export: JSON - XML - CSV
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 7977B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pair of bracelets. [A] One of copper, [B] one of silver. Each made of 3 coils of plain wire: on each is hung a smaller ring made of 3 coils of gold wire. The silver armlet is broken. |
![]() | 7983 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver finger ring. Plain wire ring found on the bone. |
8000 | (none) | 1928,1009.184 | (none) | Three silver cockle shells. One inside the other. The inner one shows signs of a red substance perhaps a pigment. Natural size. | |
8007A | (none) | (none) | B16770 | Silver plaque in two parts. [A] A circular plaque diam 009, part of the edge broken away; in center, raised electrum boss surrounded by six silver bosses; round them a border of two double raised concentric bands with fine radial lines between; folded over this and sticking to it when found was a second piece of silver with copper backing apparently broken off from where the edge of the circle is missing; the shape of the whole object would look like an elaborate buckle thus [drawing]. [B] A copper pin 0075 long was corroded on the back [C] (as were many beads) but need not belong to it. The three are cataloged under the same number. | |
8013A | (none) | (none) | B17084 | [A and B] Two silver bracelets. Made of three twists of wire. To one of these is attached by corrosion an [C] object of silver apparently containing a cockle shell [D]; the cockle shell has in it green pigment and was covered by a silver shell (broken) thus: [drawing] though it is impossible to say whether the shell is really belonging or only accidentally attached. Various beads are also attached by corrosion to the bracelet and also [E] an eye of lapis with white shell filling. | |
![]() | 8013D | (none) | (none) | B16838 | [A and B] Two silver bracelets. Made of three twists of wire. To one of these is attached by corrosion an [C] object of silver apparently containing a cockle shell [D]; the cockle shell has in it green pigment and was covered by a silver shell (broken) thus: [drawing] though it is impossible to say whether the shell is really belonging or only accidentally attached. Various beads are also attached by corrosion to the bracelet and also [E] an eye of lapis with white shell filling. |
8027 | (none) | (none) | B17467 | Copper pin. With ball head and lapis capped with silver. The shaft much decayed and broken into 5 pieces. | |
![]() | 8039A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Pair of silver hair rings(?) or earrings. Usual lunate type. [drawing] |
![]() | 8050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Of lapis lazuli. 10 large double conoids & two similar of silver (one broken). |
![]() | 8055 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bracelet(?) Silver. fragments of: curved silver wire, some thick and some very thin. |
8061 | (none) | (none) | B17423 | Copper pin. With lapis ball head capped with silver. [Type] V. | |
![]() | 8095 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Finger ring. Silver. Three coils of silver wire. |
8097 | (none) | (none) | B16792 | Beads. Very long bugles, 1 gold, 2 lapis, 3 carnelian, one of the latter facetted, & 4 small silver & 3 small gold balls. For original order see field notes. | |
![]() | 8144A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 silver rings. Consisting of 2 1/2 coils of silver wire. |
![]() | 8144B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 silver rings. Consisting of 2 1/2 coils of silver wire. |
![]() | 8147 | (none) | 1928,1009.129 | (none) | Necklace. 90 carnelian ring beads. 7 hematite ring beads. 12 silver beads, double conoids - 1 poppy head? lentoids and bugle beads. |
![]() | 8150 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Hair ring? or earring? Silver. [drawing] not to scale. |
![]() | 8162 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin with fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold. There is a hole through the top end of the shaft and affixed against one end of the hole is a small carnelian ring bead. It looks as if a string had been passed through the hole with a head at the end of it to prevent its slipping out; in that case, the pin must have acted as a true toggle. [Type] V. |
![]() | 8164 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis, carnelian and silver. About 180 in all. The lapis and carnelian are double conoids: some of the silver are the same, some are treble ball heads and some are imitation shells. Strung, silver lapis carnelian lapis silver. |
![]() | 8166 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ring of 2 1/2 coils of silver wire. |
![]() | 8185 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver object. So distorted that shape is unrecognizable: possibly a bowl. Found on the shoulder of the dead person, sticking to the fragments of skull bone. |
![]() | 8201 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis and silver with a few carnelian and some small glazed frit rings. |
8203 | (none) | (none) | B17037 | Silver ear-ring. Circle made of- 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire. & fragments of a second similar. | |
8212 | (none) | (none) | B16790 | Flower head ornament in silver, lapis and gold. The whole flower is silver, a flat truncated plate of thin metal on a fairly solid stem: on the end of each of the five petals is a ball of lapis capped with gold. Two lapis beads are corroded on to the end of the stem and may belong there (see U.8210). There was certainly a second similar flower on the other side of the head (this one rose from the right ear) but it was all broken up. | |
8214 | (none) | (none) | B16704 | Silver suspenders. A plain ring of silver wire from which hangs a spacer for 3 strings of beads: they appeared to hang from the head this way up, but two were found corroded together in opposite directions. [drawing 1:1] |
Related Terms
Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
Share
Email | Edit | Build Search
Parent Terms
Inorganic Remains > Metal > Silver