Technique: Manufacture >> Molded >> Casting 1     
Description (Catalog Card): [A-C] Copper Tumblers. 10 in all. 3 sets, nested, of 3 each, and of 4.3     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054 (dome: 17)     
Material (Catalog Card): Copper4     
Measurement (Catalog Card): ht. 015 diam 009 base 004     
U Number: 11918A     
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Cups      
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Beakers      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIA 2     
Description (Modern): A stack of three copper alloy goblets, placed one-inside-the-other and rusted together; partly broken.1     
Description (Modern): Group of copper alloy tumblers or goblets rusted together and partly broken.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 134619     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1929,1017.635     
Measurement (Height): 1605     
Measurement (Diameter): 906     
Measurement (Diameter): 407     
Notes: A-C are sets of 3 tumblers oxidized onto one another. D is a set of 4.      
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Hermann Müller-Karpe, Prähistorische Bronzefunde (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1983), No.1048, p.147.
[3] Woolley's description
[4] Material as described by Woolley
[5] Height of a single cup
[6] Rim of a single cup
[7] Base of a single cup

Locations: 11918A | 1929,1017.635 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
Unknown Woolley did not list a location. (none)
PG/1054D (none) (none)
  • 2 Locations

Media: 11918A | 1929,1017.635 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Metallgefäße im Iraq I Metallgefäße im Iraq I 1993 Müller-Karpe, Michael (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:51 Page:30 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:51 Page:30 (none)
  • 4 Media