Description (Catalog Card): Group. From one burial. (A) [A and D] Small gold earrings, single pendants with lunate end, not the normal spiral coil type, thus [drawing 1:1] (B) Small beads, minute fluted gold balls and plain carnelian balls, one large carnelian flattened sphere and one lapis ball of copper plated with gold. (C) Cylinder seal, dark steatite, spread eagle and 2 men holding between them a vase (?) on a tree. 1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1849. Burial H.     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold3     
U Number: 17812A     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Earrings >> Earrings      
Season Number: 10: 1931-1932      
Description (Modern): Earrings     
Description (Modern): SmLunate2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 32-40-449     
Measurement (Weight): 0.602     
Measurement (X): 10.002     
Measurement (Y): 10.002     
Measurement (Z): 9.002     
[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

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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:70 Page:9 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:70 Page:9 (none)
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