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)
10804E (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group A. Few beads: lapis and carnelian. B. Copper pin with plain metal ball head, broken. C. [C and E] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. D. White shell cylinder seal much decayed: visible, a man with bird-like head and 2 fighting animals
10824I 87-28-22 (none) (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
10824B (none) 1928,1010.127 (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
10825B (none) 1928,1010.320 (none) Tomb Group. A. Copper helmet on [D] head. B. Copper spearhead. Type IV. [drawing] C. Copper spearhead, poker type Type I.
10826B (none) 1928,1010.337 (none) Tomb Group. A) Copper helmet on [D] skull. B) Spearhead, copper, poker type, Type I. C) Copper spearhead, point broken and missing. Type V. (without ribs or tang). [drawing]
10827B (none) 1928,1010.338 (none) Tomb Group A. Copper helmet. B. Copper spearhead, poker type, tip missing. It is not quite of the normal type in that the section is diamond instead of square the tang, type I. variant. C. Copper spearhead, no ribs or tang, tip missing. Type V. [drawing]
10830A (none) 1928,1010.191 (none) Tomb Group. A. Silver and lapis lentoid beads. B. Silver razor (?) Type XVI. [drawing] C. Copper razor, same type, stem broken: corroded to remains of a second which is all decayed Type XVI. D. [.1-.2] Silver earrings, wire spiral coils, two. E. A number of shell rings. F. Cockle shells containing paint.
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.
11168 (none) 1928,1010.125 (none) Silver Pin. WIth plain lapis ball head. Type V.
11206 (none) 1928,1010.15 (none) Gold Diadem. Normal type, elliptical in shape, with perforated ends. [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.
11514 (none) 1929,1017.303 (none) Beads. Lapis lentoids & double conoids with 2 ribbed gold balls & a few carnelians (rings and 1 bugle).
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.
11563 (none) 1929,1017.257 (none) Beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis. Found loose together near PG 1068 & abut 300mm higher up.
11564A 30-12-539 (none) (none) Three disks of green pigment (?) with part of a fourth all stuck together.
11573 (none) 1929,1017.503 (none) Copper Spearhead poker type. [Type]VI
11576A (none) 1929,1017.40 (none) Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
11576B (none) 1929,1017.40 (none) Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
11728 30-12-561 (none) (none) Beads. A necklace formed of 17 gold tube beads with applique filigree decoration, 16 plain gold lentoids, 34 plain lapis lentoids, 1 large gold fluted ball, 2 ditto. lapis and a number of very small carnelian rings. For order see Field Notes.
11735 (none) 1929,1017.51 (none) Gold Diadem. Plain strip of rather heavy metal with a hole at each end.
11737 (none) 1929,1017.560 (none) Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. Type V.
11738 (none) 1929,1017.561 (none) Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V.

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