17812C | 1932,1008.154
| 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): | Steatite2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 24mm |
| U Number: | 17812C |
| Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Description (Modern): | Cylinder seal |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 123184 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1932,1008.154 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 6.903 |
| Measurement (X): | 12.303 |
| Measurement (Y): | 12.303 |
| Measurement (Z): | 24.103 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Aubrey Baadsgaard, Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008). |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Burial H | (none) | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Private Graves 1801-1850 >> PG/1849 >> Burial H