Description (Catalog Card): Group: [A] Gold hair ribbon. [B.1-.2] Large gold lunate earring. [C] Wreath of gold leaves on lapis and carnelian beads. [D] Silver comb with inlaid flowers. [E] Necklace of gold and lapis triangles. [F] Necklace of gold and lapis ribbed ball beads (for order see field notes). [G] Necklace of lapis and silver double conoids. [H] Silver pin with lapis head [Type] VI B. [I] Silver pin with lapis head [Type] VI B. [J] Wristlet of gold and lapis tubular beads and carnelian rings (part of it waxed). [K-L] 2 silver finger rings.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1237. No. 53. New 36.     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli4     
Material (Catalog Card): Carnelian4     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold4     
U Number: 12409J     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Bracelets and Anklets      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Clasps >> Pins 1     
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian 1     
Description (Modern): Curved Pin; Lapis Ball3     
Description (Modern): Silver pin; spherical lapis lazuli Beads head.1     
Description (Modern): Silver pin; spherical lapis lazuli Beads head.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver 3     
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 1223283     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1929,1017.1403     
Measurement (Weight): 32.503     
Measurement (X): 92.003     
Measurement (Y): 9.003     
[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[4] Material as described by Woolley

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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)
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)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:53 Page:33 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:53 Page:33 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p256 Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p256 (none)
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