11743C | 1929,1017.266 - UrOnline

Technique:	Manufacture >> Handmade >> Carved ¹
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Incised ¹
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Pierced/Perforated/Bored ¹
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Polished ¹

Description (Catalog Card):	Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
Find Context (Catalog Card):	PG 1054 C²
Material (Catalog Card):	Carnelian³
Material (Catalog Card):	Lapis Lazuli³
Material (Catalog Card):	Gold³

U Number:	11743C
Object Type:	Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads
Museum:	British Museum
Season Number:	07: 1928-1929
Culture/Period:	Early Dynastic III¹
Description (Modern):	String of 20 beads; long, biconical cornelian beads (5) and incised, oval lapis lazuli (10) and gold (5) beads; stone beads are carved, perforated, and polished.¹
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold
Museum Number (BM Big Number):	122454
Museum Number (BM Registration Number):	1929,1017.266
Measurement (Length):	56⁴
Measurement (Diameter):	8⁴
Measurement (Diameter):	8⁵
Measurement (Diameter):	9⁶

[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.

[2] NW Corner

[3] Material as described by Woolley

[4] Carnelian, max.

[5] Gold beads

[6] Lapis, max.

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PG/1054C	(none)	(none)

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Media	Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
	Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery	Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery	1934	Woolley, Leonard	(none)
	PG1054 Field Notes	PG1054 Field Notes	1922-1934	Woolley et al	(none)
	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:98	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:98	(none)

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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Private Graves 1001-1100 >> PG/1054 >> PG/1054C

References

Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woolley et al. (1922-1934) PG1054 Field Notes, Unpublished.

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