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Description (Catalog Card):	Vulture's head. Mottled dark steatite. The eyes deeply hollowed to receive inlay. The lower side of the head is smoothly finished, with no sign of any attachment to a body: the head might have been used for a weight (?) or, is isolated, as an amulet. Fine bold work.¹
Find Context (Catalog Card):	Brought in from al Obaid.
Material (Catalog Card):	Steatite²
Measurement (Catalog Card):	L. 48mm, W. 30mm, H. 20mm

U Number:	18210
Object Type:	Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Amulets and Pendants >> Animal/Human Shaped
Museum:	The National Museum of Iraq
Season Number:	11: 1932-1933
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite
Museum Number (IM Number):	IM 16540

[1] Woolley's description

[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	Al-Ubaid	Site Northwest of Ur. excavated in Ur season 2 (and earlier work by HR Hall). Published in Ur Excavation I.	(none)

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Media	Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
	Provisional Field Photo Album	Provisional Field Photo Album	(none)	(none)	(none)
	Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods	Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods	1955	Woolley, L.	(none)
	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:2	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:2	(none)

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Ur Hinterland >> Al-Ubaid

References

Provisional Field Photo Album, .

Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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