Context Title: PG/159     
Context Name (Publication): PG/159     
Nissen Date: FD     

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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)
8208 (none) (none) (none) Copper spearhead. Straight sided with central rib and solid tang. Type 4 (new)
8209A (none) (none) B16832A [A-B] Ear-rings. Gold. Each made of 2 1/2 spiral turns of gold wire: found one on each side of the skull against the ear.
8209B (none) (none) B16832B [A-B] Earrings. Gold. Each made of 2 1/2 spiral turns of gold wire: found one on each side of the skull agaisnt the ear.
8210 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large balls of lapis. See field notes: almost certainly strung together with no silver beads between. They seem to be connected with the silver flower ornament (U.8212) and perhaps formed a chaplet round the head from which the flowers rose.
8211 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A large number of lapis and carnelian beads, now all mixed together, but originally forming a number of separate strings for which see field notes.
8212 (none) (none) B16790 Flower head ornament in silver, lapis and gold. The whole flower is silver, a flat truncated plate of thin metal on a fairly solid stem: on the end of each of the five petals is a ball of lapis capped with gold. Two lapis beads are corroded on to the end of the stem and may belong there (see U.8210). There was certainly a second similar flower on the other side of the head (this one rose from the right ear) but it was all broken up.
8213 (none) (none) B16830 Crescent in light colored stone, flat. [drawing 1:1]
8214 (none) (none) B16704 Silver suspenders. A plain ring of silver wire from which hangs a spacer for 3 strings of beads: they appeared to hang from the head this way up, but two were found corroded together in opposite directions. [drawing 1:1]
8215 (none) 1928,1009.503 (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LVII.
8216 (none) 1928,1009.507 (none) Stone bowl of strongly veined calcite. Type LXXI.
8217 (none) (none) (none) Offering table of white limestone. Made in 2 pieces, a flat plate and a foot, fastened together with bitumen. (card received from Mallowan 1976. TE Reade)
8218 (none) 1928,1009.516 (none) Stone bowl of translucent whtie calcite? or quartzite found broken and mended. Type LXVII.
8219 (none) (none) B17045 Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX. photo___
8220 (none) 1928,1009.518 (none) Stone bowl. Whtie limestone. Type XIX.
8221 (none) (none) B17124 Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXIV.
8222 (none) (none) B17187 Cockle shells. Five, containing paint. [4 shells under this number in UPM?]
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Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v5 p198 Ur Notes v5 p198 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v5 p199 Ur Notes v5 p199 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v5 p200 Ur Notes v5 p200 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Ur Notes v5 p201 Ur Notes v5 p201 (none)
Zur Datierung des Konigsfriedhofes von Ur. Zur Datierung des Konigsfriedhofes von Ur. 1966 Nissen, Hans (none)
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