10983 | 83-7-1.87
| Description (Catalog Card): | Collar made of gold and lapis triangular spacers with gold (small) & lapis beads between.1 |
| Description (Archival): | Triangular Lapis, Gold2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 800B 56 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lapis lazuli4 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Gold4 |
| U Number: | 10983 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 06: 1927-1928 |
| Popular Name: | Pu'Abi's Collar |
| Description (Modern): | long collar made of triangular beads as well as squat biconical beads with very few small balls in place of a squat biconical. Worn around the shoulder area, not vertical like the "cloak" beads. The 12 lapis triangles all face the same direction and have three holes cut through them. They are carved on both sides to mimic the folded nature of the gold triangles. The 11 gold triangle beads are all a single sheet of gold, folded over, and in many cases you can see the "tab" where it folds back onto itself. The folded nature of the beads leaves 7 "holes" through the bead. In all cases, the top and bottom strands have a pattern of gold, lapis, gold beads between the triangles. The center strand has a pattern of lapis, gold, and lapis beads. Each strand has 66 small beads, in groups of three.3 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B17056 |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 83-7-1.87 |
| Notes: | When Woolley excavated the beads, he strung them according to how they were in the ground. Legrain later strung them as necklaces and gave them B numbers. Maude restrung them back into strings in 1983 resulting in the date number. Records recording these changes do not exist at this point. B and date just a guess |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Description according to CBS Register. |
| [3] Description from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section. |
| [4] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| PG/800B | This tomb chamber contained the remains of Queen Puabi, as identified by one of the cylinder seals on her body. Woolley associated it with the death pit above, to which he had assigned the designator PG/800, thus this chamber received the subletter B. Since the chamber floor is about 2.5 meters lower than the death pit floor, however, the two may actually be unrelated. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:47 Page:224 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:47 Page:224 | (none) |
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