Description (Catalog Card): Tomb Group. (A) Beads from neck: gold double conoids, carnelian rings, lapis double conoids forming top string. Middle string: lapis double conoids. Bottom string: silver double conoids. (B) Fragments of decayed silver earrings. (C) Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. (D) decayed miniature clay vase, pinkish drab friable surface. (E) [E and G] Pair of cockle shells, blue and greenish paint mixed. (F) Five or six shell rings.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 789 Burial 24     
Material (Catalog Card): Silver3     
U Number: 10816B     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Earrings >> Earrings      
Season Number: 06: 1927-1928      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIB 1     
Object Type: Vessels/Containers 1     
Description (Modern): Pinkish pottery vessel; badly worn; surface and neck incomplete.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Fired 1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 121893     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1928,1010.590     
Measurement (Height): 651     
Measurement (Diameter): 791     Body
Start Date: 2600BC1     
End Date: 2400BC1     
Fabric: Fine red-orange clay1     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:47 Page:52 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:47 Page:52 (none)
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