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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9273 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Ear Ring 1 1/2 coils Thickened ends |
| 9276 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver ear-ring [drawing] |
| 9277A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Finger rings Silver and copper Fastened together by corrosion (See field notes) |
| 9278 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver chain 2 fragments of square section, crotchet links. |
| 9279 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Lapis and silver, with 1 carnelian. Shape [refers to drawing] [drawing] |
| 9305 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver head ornament(?) [drawing] 1:1 |
| 9325A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A]Finger ring and [B] earrings. Silver. Finger ring of plain silver wire. Earrings complicated, three sets of spiral lunar-ended coils hang one from the other. [drawing] |
| 9334B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver vases Spouted (A) In remarkably good condition, but the spout has been bent back touching the rim. (B) Exactly similar, but the lower part is broken and badly warped |
| 9364 | (none) | 1928,1009.185 | (none) | Silver bowl with long trough spout, with body finely fluted and engraved, the base outside has an eight petalled flower engraved upon it. Found inside two copper bowls. From the pre-historic graves? (Illustrated Harmsworth Universal History. part 5. facing p.481 : in color.) [card seems to be a replacement] |
| 9365 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Decorated silver disk with central boss of electrum. d. 0.09 m. In poor condition. |
| 9524 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earring Of base silver(?) or copper [drawing] |
| 9537B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A/ Short string, long carnelian bugle, and 3 smaller ditto., separated by silver balls. B/ Diamond shaped lapis beads alternating with flat silver-plate beads. [drawing] C/ Mixed string of small gold fluted balls, lapis, carnelian, agate and paste, restrung mostly in original order (see Field Notes) except that there are no silver beads: in the field notes the 2 strings B & C were probably confused) |
| 9541A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Pair of earrings. Silver. 1 - broken. [drawing] |
| 9545 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace 40 silver ball beads, many corroded together; 1 gold double conoid; 1 banded sard; 3 lapis (2 ball beads, 1 double conoid) |
| 9547A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 4 Ear Rings Two silver, two copper. Silver and copper linked together to form pair. [drawing] |
| 9556 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ear-ring Double: a gold and a silver spiral each with lunate ends, interlaced. |
| 9557 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Coil of silver wire Used perhaps as a hair-ring, perhaps as an ear-ring (it lay behind the head) 3 coils of silver wire making the ring, and another coil inside it. |
| 9558 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads One gold-capped lapis; silver, lapis, and carnelian. For order see Field Notes. |
| 9561A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Necklaces. 2. Found in original order. (A) Middle of string in front, 1 silver flattened conoid, 1 double conoid rock crystal; 1 copper ball bead, 1 lentoid jasper, 1 copper ball bead; 1 banded sard; 1 copper ball bead; 1 banded sard, 1 copper ball bead. Rest of string composed of flattened silver double conoids. (B) String of lapis lazuli double axe and ball beads. |
| 9563A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Pair of earrings Silver 3 earrings in all, 2 of them linked together. Corroded on to one of them a flattened silver double conoid bead from necklace U.9561A [drawing] |
| 9565 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Pin Rounded stem [drawing] 1:1 Type IX |
| 9569 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ear-ring Silver Probably 2 corroded together: one is a plain double ring of thin silver wire, one a smaller spiral coil with lunate ends. |
| 9604A | (none) | 1928,1010.287 | (none) | 4 Silver Finger Rings [A-D] 2 1/2 coils. |
| 9604B | (none) | 1928,1010.290 | (none) | 4 Silver Finger Rings [A-D] 2 1/2 coils. | |
| 9604C | (none) | 1928,1010.290 | (none) | 4 Silver Finger Rings [A-D] 2 1/2 coils. |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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