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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 8227B | (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 |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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