EDIIIA
2600-2450
Description:
The Early Dynastic IIIa Period is marked by the beginning of syllabic writing, recording the full flow of human speech. This led to the rise of literary texts, poems, histories, etc. instead of just economic documents. Pu’abi and Meshkalamdug’s graves date to this period.
Ultra-Low Chronology
Short/Low Chronology: 2500-2375 BCE
Middle Chronology: 2600-2450 BCE
Long/High Chronology:
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11703 | (none) | (none) | B8547b | Copper Bowl. Oval in pretty good condition. Corroded on to it, in the inside, are a copper lamp and a hemispherical copper bowl. |
| 9334A | (none) | (none) | B17805 | 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 |
| 10850 | (none) | (none) | B17693 | Gold Bowl Oval (slightly distorted and flattened) of heavy and fairly pure gold: the sides fluted: engraved round the rim a double line of herring-bone pattern: the flutings end in points giving a chevron effect: the same 2 elements are repeated at the bottom against the raised oval base on which is engraved a 12-petalled rosette on a background of concentric elipses. At the middle of the sides level with rim. 2 handles each of 2 vertical gold tubes meant to take wire. | |
| 10451 | (none) | (none) | B17692 | Gold Lamp bowl with sloped straight sides rising from a ridge foot, with narrow carinated rim: from the rim projects a trough spout. (orig. circular, now bent) | |
| 10453 | (none) | (none) | B17691 | Gold Tumbler Straight-sided: the sides fluted: around top and bottom a herring-bone pattern and a double zigzag: on the base an eight-petalled rosette imposed on concentric cirlces: all designs done by chisel and hammer engraving; at one point on the rim a tiny ring-coil (horizontal) as if for suspension. (Dented in) | |
| 10818A | (none) | (none) | B17590 | Tomb Group A. A few odd beads round neck; decayed silver double conoids, one or two carnelian rings. B. [B and F] Pair of cockle shells corroded together, containing black paint. C. Decayed copper pin, rectangular in section. Type III variant. D. Few decayed shell rings worn on breast, probably originally a belt. E. Fragments of silver earrings | |
| 9787 | (none) | (none) | B17588 | Gilt Ornaments. Short copper rods, 006 long, originally encased with very thin gold. Some of these had attached to one end of them 2 small gold leaves: others had a gold flower rosette and the gold leaf had come off. Probably part of the head ornament 9785. Others had a rim round the stem near but not at the end: and there were found fragments of hollow gold leaf-like balls which may have gone above these so as rather to resemble a pomegranate. The copper stems were pierced with very small holes 0005 apart so must have served as spacers for beads, or else been sewn onto something. One of the gold flowers was fixed to a double silver bead, and to one also silver rosettes were similarly attached. [additional drawing on back of card] [drawing] |
| 10910 | (none) | (none) | B17548 | Silver Pot apparently thus- but squashed right in [drawing] (inside it is part of the lapis rod U.10911) Type [struck out: "XXXIII"] |
| 10954 | (none) | (none) | B17539 | Copper Pot. [Type] XXVII. [drawing] | |
| 8625 | (none) | (none) | B17451 | Copper bowl. Oval type. Originally provided with a long handle attached to the rim at the middle of the longer sides: this is missing. It was probably of thin (silver?) wire. | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17449 | (none) | |
| 10568 | (none) | (none) | B17439 | Copper Bowl With small circular base, flat | |
| 7994 | (none) | (none) | B17406 | Copper bowl. Oval, almost boat-shaped. In good condition but cracked. In it were several lumps of copper, apparently unformed. [type] LXIII. | |
| 10413 | (none) | (none) | B17340 | Copper Vessels a lamp, ordinary shell type fixed inside a shallow bowl with long handle (broken) & short splayed spout | |
| 10457C | (none) | (none) | B17299 | Silver Bowls 4 [A-D] Oxidised together 3 of oval type with little knob handles on the long sides, one hemispherical. Type __ Photo __ | |
| 10457B | (none) | (none) | B17298 | Silver Bowls 4 [A-D] Oxidised together 3 of oval type with little knob handles on the long sides, one hemispherical. Type __ Photo __ | |
| 10457A | (none) | (none) | B17297 | Silver Bowls 4 [A-D] Oxidised together 3 of oval type with little knob handles on the long sides, one hemispherical. Type __ Photo __ | |
| 10565 | (none) | (none) | B17280 | Copper Lamp usual shell type | |
| 10921 | (none) | (none) | B17128 | Stone Vase White veined calcite Spill Vase [drawing] Type 86 | |
| 10860 | (none) | (none) | B17082B | Silver Libation Jug Type XXIX [drawing] Corroded on to this are the tumbler U.10861 and a silver vessel, broken, of uncertain shape, probably a bowl. | |
| 10861 | (none) | (none) | B17082a | Silver Tumbler Exactly like U.10857 Corroded on to U.10860 | |
| 10886 | (none) | (none) | B17081 | Silver Lamp Usual type: in good condition | |
| 10891 | (none) | (none) | B17077 | Silver Bowl Oval with 3 bands of fluting on the sides; 2 double silver wire handle is fixed to the 2 small lugs in the middle of each side Type LXXXIII | |
| 10461 | (none) | (none) | B17073 | Silver Bowl In bad condition Type__ | |
| 10896A | (none) | (none) | B17072E | [A-B] 2 Silver Tumblers Fluted one intact one broken Exactly like U.10892 [type] LXVI |
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