Description (Catalog Card): Group. From one burial. (A) [A, E-I] Six gold earrings, small hollow lunate type, worn in sets of 3 in each earrings, small hollow lunate type, worn in sets of 3 in each ear. (B) Gold finger ring, thin metal with edges bent inwards to form a ribbed hoop. [drawing] (C) Beads: lapis diamonds, gold double conoids, silver disks, carnelian and steatite lentoids. (D) Cylinder seal, shell: hunter and lion and 2 columns of inscription.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1849. Burial G.     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): D. circa 13mm     
U Number: 17811A     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Earrings >> Earrings      
Season Number: 10: 1931-1932      
Description (Modern): Earrings     
Description (Modern): Sm Lunate2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 32-40-446A     
Measurement (Weight): 1.202     
Measurement (X): 12.002     
Measurement (Y): 12.002     
Measurement (Z): 10.002     
[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

Locations: 17811A | 32-40-446A Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
PG/1848 (none) (none)
Burial G (none) (none)
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Media: 17811A | 32-40-446A Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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 Texts II: Archaic Texts Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts 1935 Burrows, E. (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:8 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:8 (none)
  • 3 Media