MASCA Metallurgy Testing: No sample number.     
Description (Catalog Card): Gold Ribbon. On the head of the central person in the domed building.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054 Dome4     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold5     
U Number: 11905     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Headdress >> Ribbons      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIA      
Description (Modern): Gold ribbon in 3 parts, the largest part is made out of 4-5 pieces that have been mended together. The first part is coiled in a mount, gold with no design. It is 2562mm long, 4mm wide and less than 1mm thick. Part 2 is 158 mm long, 4mm wide and less than 1 mm thick with no design. Part 3 is 722mm long, 4mm wide, and less than 1mm thick with no design. 2     
Description (Modern): Ribbon3     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 30-12-757     
Measurement (Weight): 47.703     
Measurement (X): 34422     
Measurement (Y): 42     
Measurement (Y): 8.003     
Measurement (Z): 12     
Measurement (Z): 0.503     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Modern
[3] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[4] Domed Chamber
[5] Material as described by Woolley

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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:51 Page:17 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:51 Page:17 (none)
Jansen et al. 2016. Platinum Group Placer Minerals. Platinum group placer minerals in ancient gold artifacts-Geochemistry and osmium isotopes of inclusions in Early Bronze Age gold from Ur/Mesopotamia. 2016 Jansen, Moritz, Sonja Aulbach, Andreas Hauptmann, Heidi E. Hofer, Sabine Klein, Michael Kruger, and Richard L. Zettler. (none)
Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia 2008 Baadsgaard, Aubrey (none)
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
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