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)
11920C (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval. Types III and LXIII
11920D (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval. Types III and LXIII
(none) (none) (none) (none) (none)
(none) (none) (none) (none) (none)
9786A (none) (none) B17000 [A-B] Silver wire ornaments Apparently 7, of which 6 are whole or nearly so [drawing] They seem to have been connected with silver headdress 9785, with which they were found, and might have been attached to a narrow silver ribbon found with it, or to the string of very small beads: they were not with the gold rings
10052F (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Silver Bowl 4 Oval - one inside the other. The 3 inner examples are well preserved and have small lapis handles: the outer bowl is much decayed. TYPE__
10052E (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Silver Bowl 4 Oval - one inside the other. The 3 inner examples are well preserved and have small lapis handles: the outer bowl is much decayed. 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]
7995 (none) 1928,1009.321 (none) Copper strainer. Badly broken and distorted. Normal type with broad rim and flat handle. 97.
9797 (none) 1928,1010.129 (none) Silver Bowl Oval form With engraved line round rim and 3 slightly raised ribs [drawing] It forms part of a mass of broken copper vessels corroded together, and the full details of it cannot be seen. (nos. 11-14 in Field Notes) [Type] LXXXVII
(none) (none) 1928,1010.131 (none) (none)
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]
10456 (none) 1928,1010.134 (none) Silver Jug [drawing] XXX Type__
10455 (none) 1928,1010.135 (none) Silver Bucket (?) but with no handles [drawing] Type XXXII
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
10864 (none) 1928,1010.138 (none) Silver Bowl Oval With differentiated oval base, slight rim, and marked ribs at ends from base to rim: crushed and distorted. On the middle of each side, just below the rim, a lug made of a double silver tube to take a wire handle Type__
10932A (none) 1928,1010.14 (none) [A-B] Gold Cockle-shells. Pair. modeled on the real, the ribs rendered by engraved lines. Inside one is green paint. [drawing]
10858A (none) 1928,1010.140 (none) [A-C] Silver Vessels a set of 3 silver tumbers exactly like U.10857, corroded together Fixed on to these by corrosion is a [D] silver scoop or ladle Type LXXX [drawing]
10858B (none) 1928,1010.140 (none) [A-C] Silver Vessels a set of 3 silver tumbers exactly like U.10857, corroded together Fixed on to these by corrosion is a [D] silver scoop or ladle Type LXXX [drawing]
10858C (none) 1928,1010.140 (none) [A-C] Silver Vessels a set of 3 silver tumbers exactly like U.10857, corroded together Fixed on to these by corrosion is a [D] silver scoop or ladle Type LXXX [drawing]
10858D (none) 1928,1010.140 (none) [A-C] Silver Vessels a set of 3 silver tumbers exactly like U.10857, corroded together Fixed on to these by corrosion is a [D] silver scoop or ladle Type LXXX [drawing]
10457D (none) 1928,1010.145 (none) Oval, with oval base Found with silver lamp and calcite vase Type LXII
10458A (none) 1928,1010.146 (none) Silver Vessels [A-O] 15 goblets 42 (new) [P] 1 libation jug 83 (new) [Q] 1 flat tray 32 (new) Types__ Photo__
10458B (none) 1928,1010.146 (none) Silver Vessels [A-O] 15 goblets 42 (new) [P] 1 libation jug 83 (new) [Q] 1 flat tray 32 (new) Types__ Photo__
10458C (none) 1928,1010.146 (none) Silver Vessels [A-O] 15 goblets 42 (new) [P] 1 libation jug 83 (new) [Q] 1 flat tray 32 (new) Types__ Photo__

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