Gold is a metal that is solid in standard conditions, and appears as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits.  It has very high malleability, which means it can be hammered and cast very thin without breaking.  It is also resistant to corrosion and its bright yellow color and high luster led to it being in high demand.  It can be used as material for stand alone objects like vessels or jewelry, and because of its malleability can also be used to cover objects with a thin sheet of gold.  

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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)
10029 (none) (none) (none) Gold finger ring Three coils of spiral gold wire
10034 (none) (none) (none) Gold Bowl. (? electrum) Hemispherical with slight base broken nearly in halves. Found corroded to the copper tray (U.10036) and silver libation vase (U.10035). The decorated gold bowl, U.10003 was inside it, and so was the plain gold bowl U.10013
10089 (none) (none) (none) Beads Double lentoids of lapis and gold See Field Notes
10094 (none) (none) (none) Gold earrings Very large double lunate pendants of thin metal much crushed & distorted & broken Type__
10095 (none) (none) (none) Gold Ribbon From the head-dress
10096 (none) (none) (none) Wreath of gold mulberry leaves strung with small lapis bugles & carnelian rings (orig. 13 in all, but some are badly broken) Type__
10190A (none) 1928,1010.681 (none) [A-B] 2 Gold earrings Lunate hollowed ends bag-shaped in appearance [drawing]
10190B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Gold earrings Lunate hollowed ends bag-shaped in appearance [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
10316 (none) (none) (none) Earring Lapis lazuli with gold hoop. The pendant is shaped like a saddle, smooth on one side, decorated with oblique incisions on the other. The incised side has a raised ridge running down its axis; the ridge is perforated in 3 places and gold links remain in case of two of the holes. The body of the earring is further perforated 4 times probably to admit gold suspenders. The gold hoop was attached to it on the one side by a hole through which the wire was passed and then wound about itself. On the other side the hoop end was inserted through the hole and then bent against the lapis suspender so as to be made fast.
10327 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin Broken in 3 pieces Lapis ball head with gold cap on upper and under side Type V
10328A (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Gold Ribbons Worn around head radiating out from crown of head Imprint of veil on the under side of one of the ribbons/
10328B (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Gold Ribbons Worn around head radiating out from crown of head Imprint of veil on the under side of one of the ribbons/
10328C (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Gold Ribbons Worn around head radiating out from crown of head Imprint of veil on the under side of one of the ribbons/
10328D (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Gold Ribbons Worn around head radiating out from crown of head Imprint of veil on the under side of one of the ribbons/
10328E (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Gold Ribbons Worn around head radiating out from crown of head Imprint of veil on the under side of one of the ribbons/
10328F (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Gold Ribbons Worn around head radiating out from crown of head Imprint of veil on the under side of one of the ribbons/
10329 (none) (none) (none) 13 Gold (Mulberry?) leaves Strung with lapis bugles and carnelian rings. Each leaf has a gold tang bent double thus forming two tubes for two strings of beads. Against the leaf on either side a small carnelian ring bead, then 2 lapis bugles, carnelian ring, leaf, etc.
10330A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Necklace Gold double conoids on a bitumen core Lapis lazuli double conoids. 3 strings: each string has 3 double conoid gold and 6 double conoid lapis
10330B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Necklace Gold double conoids on a bitumen core Lapis lazuli double conoids. 3 strings: each string has 3 double conoid gold and 6 double conoid lapis
10331A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Gold earrings Lunate large type with bitumen cores- double pendants
10331B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Gold earrings Lunate large type with bitumen cores- double pendants
10337 (none) (none) (none) 5 or 6? Gold Ribbons In poor condition. Badly broken up.
10338 (none) (none) (none) 13 Gold (Mulberry?) Leaves Strung with carnelian rings and lapis bugles in the normal manner Worn round forehead
10340A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Gold earrings Very large, with double lunate ends, hollowed to hold a bitumen core Badly bent & broken

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