Description (Catalog Card): Silver lamp. Shell type.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Chamber B. PG 1236.     
Material (Catalog Card): Silver3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 300mm, W. 160mm     
U Number: 12447     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Tools and Equipment >> Lamps and Incense Burners >> Lamps      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIA 1     
Description (Modern): UE 2 p. 113: 'In Chamber C against the north- east wall there were two silver lamps (U. I2446-7, Type II5) in good condition...' M     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 122256     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1929,1017.624     
[1] Hermann Müller-Karpe, Prähistorische Bronzefunde (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1983), No.74, p.39, pl.16.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley
[4] Data collected by British Museum research team.

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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)
Metallgefäße im Iraq I Metallgefäße im Iraq I 1993 Müller-Karpe, Michael (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:53 Page:74 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:53 Page:74 (none)
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