Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards

Omeka ID:	5735

Transcription:	PG 1236 Chamber BC against the NE wall & this small chamber were 2 silver lamps both in very good condition. Scattered on the floor amongst many fragments of bones, were quantities of beads in gold lapis and carnelian, U.12453 U.12452, leaves and rings etc. from head-dresses U 12451, part of a girdle made up of lapis disks set in gold with lapis links between, U 12450 - one gold chain from a frontlet U12449, a lentoid lapis cylinder seal U 12448 and a small shell cylinder seal much decayed, (&) some silver with spiral coil hair rings

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
12448	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Lentoid shape. Subject: 2 men and 2 animals.
12452	(none)	1929,1017.239	(none)	Beads. Rectangular oblongs of gold, lapis and carnelian. A few only, found loose on the floor, most clearly belonging together.
12453	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. A mixed lot of gold, lapis and carnelian found scattered over the floor of the tomb chamber.

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PG/1236	A large stone-built chamber (limestone rubble) with 4 inner rooms. In this it is very similar to the layout of PG/779. A looter's hole had caused a collapse at one end and much damage throughout the tomb, but architecturally this large chamber was better preserved than many others. Contents, however, were meager owing to ancient looters. Woolley believed this had been the tomb of a king, with attendants in some of the chambers. He traced the side of the pit more than 7 meters above the chamber and believed that a mud brick building above that had been a kind of chapel for rituals after the burial.	(none)