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

Omeka ID:	5295

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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)
	12326	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell inlay. Soldier wearing a helmet and carrying a battle-axe. Hair done up in a chignon at back of head protruding beyond helmet: over left shoulder clothing in shape of a fleece, and under chin a beard; fleece & beard indicated by undulating lines. Head in profile, torso full face. All the incisions originally had black paint. Figure missing below waist- this must have been of some other material. This was found in conjunction with large pieces of slate that had evidently formed the framework to contain shell carvings, cf. Kish plaques. With the slate framework was found a large triangular piece of mother of pearl.

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PG/1237	Woolley called this the 'Great Death Pit' because it is the largest of all the death pits in the royal cemetery. He found 74 bodies within but did not find a built chamber, an aspect he believed essential to royal tombs. Woolley declared the chamber must have been completely looted away and pointed to small amounts of rubble as evidence of this, but in fact the large size of this death pit and the particular wealth displayed by Body 61 may indicate that the primary burial was among the attendants in this case.	(none)