Description (Catalog Card): Group: [A] Gold hair ribbon. [B]Wreath of gold medallions with lapis canters on a string of lapis and carnelian beads [C] Wreath of triple gold willow leaves on carnelian and lapis beads. [D] Wreath of gold beech leaves on carnelian and lapis beads. [E.1-.2] Two large gold lunate earrings. [F.1-.2] Two gold wire spiral coil hair rings. [G-I] 3 gold flowers on silver stems. [J] Silver comb with 3 inlaid flowers. [K] Necklace of gold and lapis triangles. [L] Necklace of gold and lapis tubular beads and carnelian rings (for order see field notes). [M] Necklace of large fluted ball beads gold and lapis and carnelian rings: (for order see field notes). [N] Necklace of Carnelian and gold double conoids and carnelian rings. [O] Necklace of carnelian rings, gold balls and lapis rounds. [P]Bracelet of large lapis and gold, lapis and carnelian rings. [Q-V] Six gold finger-rings, all of cable pattern between plain rims of different sizes. [W] Bracelet of 4 lapis and 4 gold. Diamond beads and carnelian rings. [X] Gold pin with lapis ball head [Type] V. [Y] Lapis cylinder seal. [Z] Silver pin with lapis head [Type] VI B.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1237. No. 22. New 61.     
Material (Catalog Card): Silver3     
U Number: 12380J     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Headdress >> Hair Ornaments >> Hair Combs      
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Description (Modern): Comb     
Description (Modern): Flowers2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold 2     
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 122301     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1929,1017.113     
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 1223042     
Measurement (Weight): 7.602     
Measurement (X): 57.402     
Measurement (Y): 57.402     
Measurement (Z): 5.802     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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