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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10554 | (none) | (none) | B17067 | Silver Bowl Oval, with cone base Type__ | |
 | 9364 | (none) | 1928,1009.185 | (none) | Silver bowl with long trough spout, with body finely fluted and engraved, the base outside has an eight petalled flower engraved upon it. Found inside two copper bowls. From the pre-historic graves? (Illustrated Harmsworth Universal History. part 5. facing p.481 : in color.) [card seems to be a replacement] |
| 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. |
| 10953 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Hemispherical with slight base. Distorted. Type III. |
| 11792 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Oblong. |
| 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 __ | |
| 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 __ | |
| 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 __ | |
| 10455 | (none) | 1928,1010.135 | (none) | Silver Bucket (?) but with no handles [drawing] Type XXXII |
| 10863 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Cup or small tumbler Straight-sided with flattened base Type XLIX |
| 10583 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Goblet Plain Crushed flat [Type] [struck out: "LXII"] XLIX |
| 10456 | (none) | 1928,1010.134 | (none) | Silver Jug [drawing] XXX Type__ |
| 10460 | (none) | 1928,1010.133 | (none) | Silver Jug (?) Askos shape With 2 long lugs, pierced: through this runs a twisted silver wire of which the rest, attached to a spindle whorl-shaped object, perhaps the stopper, is inside the pot. Type 113? [drawing] |
| 10463 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Lamp Usual shell type Type 115 (new) |
| 10886 | (none) | (none) | B17081 | Silver Lamp Usual type: in good condition | |
| 10974 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Lamp. Normal type, but unusually large, the top and end hopelessly decayed. |
| 12446 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver lamp. Shell type. |
| 12447 | (none) | 1929,1017.62 | (none) | Silver lamp. Shell type. |
| 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. | |
| 10914 | (none) | 1928,1010.136 | (none) | Silver Offering-table In two parts which now though corroded together are displaced The foot is funnel-shaped and was made solid by a filling of bitumen: the top is covered with a silver cap: on this rested a tray with shallow upturned rim [drawing] [Type] XXXVIII |
| 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. |
| 10862 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Patten Umbilical, with flat border and raised rim Broken and distorted [Type] XXVIII |
| 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"] |
| 10462 | (none) | 1928,1010.147 | (none) | Silver Pot [Type] XXXII [drawing] Inside it a silver bowl: and resting against the rim and projecting above it a silver drinking tube |
| 10859 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Saucer With flat base and straight sides fastened by corrosion to the side of U.10855 [line drawing] See type 28 |
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