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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12082 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Roundel. Mother of Pearl. Engraved 8-petalled rosette in type as the rosettes found on tips of silver combs of early royal graves. Centre (originally in lapis?) is missing. |
| 9362 | 47-29-316 | (none) | B17085 | Set of silver toilet instruments, tweezers, knife, and two stilettos suspended from a silver ring. No case was found with set. [card seems to be a replacement] | |
| 11969A | 30-12-255B | (none) | (none) | Silver & Copper vessels. Corroded together. [A] Silver bowl. [B-C] Inside this 2 copper bowls slightly smaller; [D] inside these another copper bowl; [E] inside that, a copper tumbler, (crushed). | |
| 12478 | 30-12-579 | (none) | (none) | Silver axe. Type thus: AB(new). [drawing] | |
| 9818 | (none) | 1928,1010.271 | (none) | Silver Bangle Broken and part missing [drawing] | |
| 16676 | 31-43-210 | (none) | (none) | Silver bangle. Circular. Ends overlapping. Broken in 2 pieces. | |
| 6480 | (none) | 1927,0527.84 | (none) | Silver bangles (2) and group of beads. Found lumped together owing to corrosion. |
| 10017 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Belt Fragments of Found lying round the waist |
| 10566 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Boat With seats, curved support for awning, and silver oars 6 seats: some of the oars broken but otherwise in very good condition. |
| 10918 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl fragment of (half only) orig. hemispherical with slight base. [Type] III |
| 10908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Fragment only Orig. hemispherical with slight base. Type III |
| 10902 | (none) | (none) | B17070 | Silver Bowl Hemispherical with low circular base Type III | |
| 10905 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Hemispherical with slight base distorted, and the rim chipped [Type] [struck out: "III"] |
| 10904 | (none) | (none) | B17071 | Silver Bowl Hemispherical with slight base, part of rim missing Type III |
| 10903 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl hemispherical with slightly raised base (badly distorted) [Type] III |
| 10461 | (none) | (none) | B17073 | Silver Bowl In bad condition Type__ | |
| 10909 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Orig. hemispherical with slight base (broken & distorted) Type III |
| 10906 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl orig. hemispherical with slight base; broken & distorted Type III |
| 10865 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Originally circular: now broken and distorted: slightly raised circular flat base Probably hemispherical [Type] III |
| 10032 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Oval A good deal distorted & cracked |
| 10033 | (none) | (none) | B17529 | Silver Bowl Oval Resembling U.10031 badly smashed up |
| 10891 | (none) | (none) | B17077 | Silver Bowl Oval with 3 bands of fluting on the sides; 2 double silver wire handle is fixed to the 2 small lugs in the middle of each side Type LXXXIII | |
| 10864 | (none) | 1928,1010.138 | (none) | Silver Bowl Oval With differentiated oval base, slight rim, and marked ribs at ends from base to rim: crushed and distorted. On the middle of each side, just below the rim, a lug made of a double silver tube to take a wire handle Type__ |
| 9797 | (none) | 1928,1010.129 | (none) | Silver Bowl Oval form With engraved line round rim and 3 slightly raised ribs [drawing] It forms part of a mass of broken copper vessels corroded together, and the full details of it cannot be seen. (nos. 11-14 in Field Notes) [Type] LXXXVII |
| 10031 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl Oval, with base Exactly like the gold example from the same grave: the foot is slightly developed Base burst in TYPE__ |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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