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)
10904	(none)	(none)	B17071	Silver Bowl Hemispherical with slight base, part of rim missing Type III
10902	(none)	(none)	B17070	Silver Bowl Hemispherical with low circular base Type III
10907	(none)	(none)	B17069	Two Silver Bowls corroded together. both very badly distorted Measurements impossible Type__
10855A	(none)	(none)	B17068	[A] Silver Pot A good deal distorted but complete [drawing] Type XXXIII Inside it and projecting above the rim is [B] a gold drinking tube of very thin metal much broken up
10554	(none)	(none)	B17067	Silver Bowl Oval, with cone base Type__
10475	(none)	(none)	B17066	Copper Object ? armour ? But it was apparently nailed into a wooden background. [drawing] Embossed on it two figures of lions and two of men and below, a disk with 8-petalled rosette.
10916	(none)	(none)	B17065	Silver Bulls Head With long horns and inlaid eyes The muzzle has been damaged, and one of the horns broken off and re-attached. It came from a wooden statue, judging from the fact that nothing else was found to which it could have belonged: the shell plaques U.10917 A and B must have been on its chest as usual Photo 1020 (a)
10465A	(none)	(none)	B17064	[A-B] Silver Lions heads two with inlaid eyes Photo
10980A	83-7-61	(none)	B17046	Beads. Silver and gold double conoids.
9014	(none)	(none)	B17043	Silver? Ear Ring 1 1/2 coils [drawing]
8203	(none)	(none)	B17037	Silver ear-ring. Circle made of- 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire. & fragments of a second similar.
(none)	(none)	(none)	B17028	(none)
9727	(none)	(none)	B17027	1 Silver earring Flat, lunar ends [drawing]
9726A	(none)	(none)	B17026	[A-B] 2 copper? Earrings. Corroded together. Solid ends. [drawing]
(none)	(none)	(none)	B17020	(none)
9785	(none)	(none)	B17005	Silver Head Ornament shaped as a lotus(?) flower with long stem and 7 points (petals?) tipped with lapis balls. Broken a few bits missing. [drawing]
9786A	(none)	(none)	B17000	[A-B] Silver wire ornaments Apparently 7, of which 6 are whole or nearly so [drawing] They seem to have been connected with silver headdress 9785, with which they were found, and might have been attached to a narrow silver ribbon found with it, or to the string of very small beads: they were not with the gold rings
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16995G	(none)
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16995F	(none)
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16995E	(none)
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16995D	(none)
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16995C	(none)
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16995B	(none)
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16995A	(none)
10584E	(none)	(none)	B16990	Head Ornaments. (A) Quantity of gold ribbon., (B) Gold wreath, leaf pendants with double string of lapis and carnelian beads. (C) [.1-.2] Pair of large gold lunate earrings. (D)Silver pin with lapis head. (E) Silver hair ornament, 3-pronged, with rosette finials of gold, lapis and shell. (F) Double conoid beads, gold and lapis (see field notes) (G) Beads, lapis and silver (H) [H and L] 2 silver earrings, plain wire spirals [I] [Not assigned] (J)Cockleshells containing paint. (K) Silver pin, rounded head, L. 150mm