Gold
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8962 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small gold, silver, lapis and carnelian. For order see Field Notes. |
| 8966 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold spoon. Long-stemmed miniature spoon, probably medical, perhaps an ear-pick. The top of the stem is drawn out into a wire and brought over to make a loop, the end twisted round the stem in a fine spiral: it hung from a silver ring. The loop is broken off. The bowl has been broken and mended. |
| 8969A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Gold ear-rings. A pair. [drawing 1:1] Small, normal type, 1 1/2 coils with crescent ends. |
| 8974 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold-plated copper and lapis, small. (the former in bad condition) |
| 9001 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ear-ring Gold [drawing] |
| 9018 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads 19 in all Small lapis, gold and carnelian barrel beads, a few ring beads and 2 large copper beads. |
| 9037 | (none) | (none) | B16839 | Gold ring For finger 2 coils of gold wire - fairly flexible | |
| 9038 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold earring. Thin gold wire with 2 spoon shaped ends. [drawing] |
| 9039 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Ear Ring 1 1/2 coils of thin but solid gold wire - thickened ends [drawing] |
| 9040A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Gold earrings U-shaped, hollow inside, convex outside like a pouch with a detached gold handle for suspension. One broken. The ring suspender of the other missing. [drawing ]1:1 |
| 9040B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Gold earrings U-shaped, hollow inside, convex outside like a pouch with a detached gold handle for suspension. One broken. The ring suspender of the other missing. [drawing ]1:1 |
| 9044 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section. Head narrower than the stem of the pin. The head is covered by a cap of gold foil. Pin broken in two pieces. Only half of gold cap remains. Tip missing [drawing] |
| 9078 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Miniature dove Gold Worked: with greenish blue stone tail let in |
| 9088 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace Minute gold ball beads &minute carnelian barrel beads Original order: 3 gold beads to 1 carnelian. |
| 9131 | (none) | (none) | B16687 | Gold chisel Broken in half [drawing] | |
| 9142 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Diamond-shaped flat plate beads alternately lapis and gold plate over copper - the latter in bad condition. One string. |
| 9143 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lentoids of lapis & gold (thin plate over copper), with a few carnelians: strung in sets of 6. See field notes. one strings |
| 9144 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads very small lapis and gold balls, with them a pendant of artificial cat's eye (hematite(?) & shell) set in copper. [drawing of cat's eye] |
| 9146 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earring. Gold & silver [drawing] 2 coils, one inside the other (now separate). |
| 9151 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin With gold and lapis ball head the stem is pierced and through the back passes a copper ring: from this hangs apparently a very slender copper chain (almost entirely destroyed): the chain runs along the pin to the point where a silver seal (U.9150) was fixed by corrosion to the stem, and it presumably supported the seal. [Type V] |
| 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] |
| 9163 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [CARD MISSING] Gold nail with round convex head D. 22mm , and square section stem, the latter broken off at 20mm, and bent. Very solid heavy metal. |
| 9167 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold diadem Plain narrow gold ribbon with hole at each end |
| 9177 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [CARD MISSING] Beads. A few - 4 gold, some lapis, and 2 small bugles of red and white banded agate |
| 9183 | (none) | (none) | B16854 | Cylinder seal Lapis, with gold caps (the latter rather broken). Subject: Gilgamesh and Eabani. |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Iron - Lead - Silver
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