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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Silver balls and lapis double conoids. (from the neck) |
| 9628 | (none) | (none) | B16929 | Beads Silver, carnelian, agate, and lapis in their original order (see Field Notes) forming a separate necklace | |
| 9629 | (none) | (none) | B16930 | Beads Silver, carnelian, lapis, copper and paste: original order noted in Field Notes: forming a separate necklace. | |
| 9683 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small lapis diamonds and silver-plate beads Found by the pin 9682 and probably used to fasten to it the cylinder seal 9681 |
| 9327 | (none) | (none) | B16801 | Beads Very small gold beds, small lapis, and silver disks: also, one long bugle of bloodstone. For order see Field Notes. | |
| 9153 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads & Seal 1 very long carnelian bugle, i ditto. green jasper, 2 crystal rings and 2 gold balls: on the end a silver button seal with engraved face: subject not decipherable. [drawing] |
| 10313 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Bangle Lapis & silver double conoids on wooden cores Minute gold, lapis and silver balls For order of stringing cf. Field Note |
| 8377 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads etc. Large silver rings to which are attached spacers pierced by 3 holes: between these were set lapis bugles flanked by carnelian rings: see field notes. Part of the chain preserved as found. |
| 7958 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads of carnelian etc. From a bracelet. 2 carnelian, 4 jasper (blood stone), lentoid bugles, 4 silver ball beads, 1 gold plated copper ball bead (decayed). |
| 9936 | (none) | (none) | B16734 | Beads, etc. From a diadem. 1 large gold lentoid bead; 4 ditto. lapis; and with them fragments of a silver chain. See field notes. |
| 11975C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. (A) = set of 4, 2 carnelian & 2 lapis lentoids; (B)= set of very small lapis & some carnelian; [C] with them 1 earring, spiral coil of silver wire. |
| 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. |
| 9767 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold balls, agate lentoids, and some silver balls; mostly in original order: see Field Notes. |
| 8201 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis and silver with a few carnelian and some small glazed frit rings. |
| 8050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Of lapis lazuli. 10 large double conoids & two similar of silver (one broken). |
| 8376C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver. Some quadruple tubes from dog collar string, large lentoids which went with the larger lapis lentoids (U.8376B) and smaller beads. |
| 8962 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small gold, silver, lapis and carnelian. For order see Field Notes. |
| 8927 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small silver balls, silver disks, and small lapis balls. See field notes. |
| 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. | |
| 11468A | (none) | 1929,1017.321 | (none) | Beads. (A) A string of lapis and carnelian bugles & double conoids with a few of silver decayed, and a lapis cylinder with criss-cross pattern. (B) Small rings of paste & lapis with a lapis frog amulet. |
| 13572 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis and silver double conoids. Order not identified. |
| 19074 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis, small balls, ovals and double conoids; carnelian balls; silver balls. |
| 8954 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 1 carnelian bugle, and a set of mixed small beads: lapis, carnelian, & silver. |
| 11844 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 1, very long carnelian bugle; a few smaller beads, carnelian, lapis & silver. (see Field Notes). |
| 8653 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 10 gold, 10 silver, and 3 carnelian. Found in a group apparently preserving the order in which they were sewn, as bead embroidery, onto a garment: the small silver beads which completed the design were too decayed to be kept. See field notes. see drawing. |
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