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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8165 | 87-28-16 | (none) | (none) | Finger ring. Silver. Filigree work, 6 strands of fine silver wire welded together in the hoop. Also, part of a second similar. | |
 | 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] | |
| 8226A | (none) | (none) | B16730 | [A] Silver pin with plain ball head of lapis capped with gold. The shaft is pierced just below the head: [B] the 7 beads found just by it may have been fixed to the pin by this hole. The beads are catalogued with the pin. See field notes. [Type] V |
| 8227A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Silver earrings. A pair, each made of 2 1/2 spiral turns of silver wire. |
| 8253 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Silver. Broken and fragmentary. Handle of silver wire twisted through 2 holes on either side perforated immediately below rim. Warped. [drawing? Metal type _.] |
| 8267 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 49 in all - double conoid lapis and carnelian, 1 small silver ball bead, and a number of minute carnelian ring beads. Also 2 gold double conoids. |
| 8268A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 silver rings. One consisting of two, the other of three thick coils. |
| 8268B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 silver rings. One consisting of two, the other of three thick coils. |
| 8279 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pin. Silver. Lapis lazuli ball head. Rounded in section. [drawing 1:2] [type] V |
| 8280 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ring. Silver. 2 coils. |
| 8295 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 beads. 1 double conoid lapis lazuli. 1 double conoid silver. |
| 8303 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver earrings (one broken). Single coil with broadened ends. [drawing] |
| 8304 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver razor(?). The flat end of the blade is folded over - very doubtful whether it is a razor at all. [drawing] |
| 8305 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver earring (one only found). [drawing] |
| 8306A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver chain [A]. Fragments of. Made with the same sort of crochet link as the gold chain U.8002, giving a square section: but this is thicker and heavier. In 6 fragments. It was almost certainly linked up (like U.8002) with a few beads [B] found with it - 3 large conoids, 2 lapis, 1 silver, and 3 carnelian rings and 1 sard bugle, strung alternately. These are cataloged with the chain. |
| 8309 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver ear-ring. Originally 2 1/2 spiral coils of thin silver wire: but one coil broken. |
| 8332 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver object. Probably a mirror. Thin flat metal. The silver is absolutely decayed and reduced to powder: the shape is fairly definite [drawing] but the edges are at present ragged and irregular. Real use of object quite uncertain. |
| 8333 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver bowl. Oval, or boat-shaped with nearly vertical sides. In very bad condition, but waxed in situ and preserved. The measurements give a rather false idea of the vessel owing to its being crushed badly out of shape. The base measures 0075x0045 and is slightly sunk: the original width was probably c. 014 [Type] LXIII. |
| 8338A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Silver earrings. A pair. One broken. Ordinary type with broadened ends. [drawing] |
| 8358 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver finger ring. A plain circle of silver wire with the ends overlapping. Found on the finger bone. |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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