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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10997 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Ladle. Handle broken but complete. Type LXXXII [drawing] |
| 10998 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Tumbler. Fluted, and engraved round rim with band of chevrons and herring-bone design. Smaller than but otherwise identical with those from PG 800 B. Type LXVI. [Additional notes on back of card, meaning unknown] |
| 11154 | (none) | (none) | B16692 | Gold Ostrich Shell. Natural size, open at the top to make a vase: Decorated on the base and round rim with incrustation work in shell, lapis, and red stone. All the incrustation had fallen off, but has been partially restored on the analogy of the silver shell and of the real ostrich shells from the same grave. | |
| 11155 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Ostrich Shell. Originally decorated on base and round the rim with incrustation in shell, lapis, and red stone. All ornament gone: the Shell much distorted and broken. |
| 11161 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Cup. Very thin soft gold, quite plain: slight foot-rim. [drawing] |
| 11526 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bowl. Oval. |
| 11569 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp. Usual shell shape. One side badly broken & parts of it missing: otherwise well preserved. |
| 11572 | 30-12-350 | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. | |
| 11575 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. |
| 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. |
| 11739 | 30-12-275 | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. |
| 11741 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp. Usual type. |
| 11763 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Cauldron (the bottom is prized up). |
| 11783 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp. Usual shell type. Extreme L. 190mm |
| 11788 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pot. |
| 11792 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Oblong. |
| 11793 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. |
| 11794 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Broken, distorted & decayed hemispherical? Design incised & in relief-below, conventional mountains (engraved), above, in relief, procession of mountain goats. |
| 11804 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Oval with silver tubular handle-attachments. |
| 11861A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper Bowls. Hemispherical. A pair of the same size (1 broken in halves) |
| 11861B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper Bowls. Hemispherical. A pair of the same size (1 broken in halves) |
| 11902 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Tumbler. Fluted, with pattern at rim and the same(inverted) at base: under the base a rosette thus [Drawing of rosette] [Drawing of pattern at rim] |
| 11905 | 30-12-757 | (none) | (none) | Gold Ribbon. On the head of the central person in the domed building. | |
| 11916A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two Copper disks. Slightly concave, like the pans of a scale. |
| 11921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Jug. of the normal libation type with very long spout. [Drawing] Type XXIX |
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