Title: Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia     
Date: 2008     
Author: Baadsgaard, Aubrey     

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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)
10877C (none) (none) B16719 Gold finger rings A-D five, all similar design a flat hoop with plain beading and cable coils in centre (made from coiled wire)
10877D (none) (none) B16720 Gold finger rings A-D five, all similar design a flat hoop with plain beading and cable coils in centre (made from coiled wire)
10878 (none) (none) B16721 Gold finger ring In the middle of the band, 3 rows of cable pattern : round each edge an inlaid line of lapis lazuli (much of the stone missing)
10879 (none) (none) B17063 Beads From the belt Plain short bugles of lapis, gold and carnelian, and minute ball beads in the same material: see Field Notes.
10889 (none) (none) B16735 Beads Big double conoids of gold (plated) lapis and carnelian For order see Field Notes
10901A (none) (none) B16711 [A-B] Silver Cockle Shells a pair fastened together by corrosion, presumably containing paint
10932B (none) (none) B16710 [A-B] Gold Cockle-shells. Pair. modeled on the real, the ribs rendered by engraved lines. Inside one is green paint. [drawing]
10934 (none) (none) B17711a Head-dress. Consisting of a mass of gold ribbon (U.17711A). See Field Notes. See also Nos. U.10935-9
10935A (none) (none) B17708 [A] Gold ring pendants 19 in all strung up with lapis & carnelian bead (see field notes) & worn round the head below the leaf bands U.10936 and U.10937. [drawing 1:1]
10935B.1 (none) (none) B17709 [B] Gold mulberry leaf pendants in all : on the tip of each a carnelian (some missing) strung up with lapis & carnelian beads & worn round the head between U.10934 and U.10936. See field notes. [drawing 1:1]
10936 (none) (none) B17711 Gold Leaf Pendants. Each formed of 3 narrow leaves: on the tip of each a carnelian. With the leaves were gold rosettes having inlaid petals. These were strung with beads of lapis and carnelian, carnelian pear pendants and (apparently) small gold spacers. Worn on the head above the other chains. See Field Notes. [drawing 1:1]
10937 (none) (none) B16693 Gold Head Ornament. Pin rising to big flat palm from which rise 7 branches thinning down to wires: these are connected high up by a twisted gold wire: at the end of each is a gold rosette with lapis centre (if there were petals of inlay these are missing). [drawing]
10940 (none) (none) B16729 Gold Pin. With lapis ball head. Type V. On the right upper arm with the cylinder seal U.10939
10942A (none) (none) B16992A [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair of 3 spiral coils of thick gold wire. Unusually heavy.
10942B (none) (none) B16992B [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair of 3 spiral coils of thick gold wire. Unusually heavy.
10942C 98-9-9a (none) (none) [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair of 3 spiral coils of thick gold wire. Unusually heavy.
10942D 98-9-9b (none) (none) [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair of 3 spiral coils of thick gold wire. Unusually heavy.
10966A (none) (none) B17185 Cockle-shells. Containing green and white paint, of unusually large size, the biggest being 145mm, across.
10966B (none) (none) B17186 Cockle-shells. Containing green and white paint, of unusually large size, the biggest being 145mm, across.
10979 (none) (none) B16783 Beads. A garter composed of flat lapis bugles, flat gold bugles and a carnelian ball.
10982B (none) (none) B16694 Gold Amulet. [A] Wheel rosette. Attached apparently to a number of very small gold and lapis beads [B] : but there is no means of attachment. Alternate petals one inlaid with lapis, and the others left clear. [drawing 1:1]
11477 30-12-465 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian and lapis, bugles & lentoids; a few ball-heads of dark wood (ebony?) most of which fell to pieces. For order see Field Notes.
11525 30-12-309 (none) (none) Copper axe. Type A3(new) [drawing]
11528 30-12-8 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell much decayed. Subject: a man & 2 lions rampant against a deer? upside down.
11531 30-12-451 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelians, lapis & chrysoprases (?) see Field Notes.

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