18144A

Description (Catalog Card): Beads. A mixed lot. Carnelian, agate, jasper, marble hematite lapis and agate. Mixed shapes: one double tubular; date stamped, tubular, rings etc. Also, a spindle whorl of grey steatite.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): NNCF. NE. Found over a child's coffin in House 1, upper level (Room 5)     
Material (Catalog Card): Steatite3     
Material (Catalog Card): Jasper3     
Material (Catalog Card): Marble3     
Material (Catalog Card): Haematite3     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli3     
Material (Catalog Card): Agate3     
Material (Catalog Card): Carnelian3     
U Number: 18144A     
Museum: The National Museum of Iraq      
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Suspension Weights      
Season Number: 10: 1931-1932      
Description (Modern): Shape: barrel; Material: Haematite; Color: Black; Condition: complete, a hole on one side, might have been one shequel2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Agate      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Hematite      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Jasper      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Marble      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite      
Museum Number (IM Number): IM 20723     
Measurement (Weight): 7.8852     
Measurement (X): 31.402     
Measurement (Y): 9.302     
Notes: Iraq Museum records U Number: U. 181442     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Data collected by Thelma Akrawi, Iraq Museum.
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:71 Page:139 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:71 Page:139 (none)
Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods 1962 Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max (none)
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Context

Excavation Context: Ur >> NNCF >> Northeast >> House 1 >> Room 5

References

Woolley, L. and Mallowan, Max. (1962) Ur Excavations IX; The Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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