Description (Catalog Card): Inlay. 2 fragments of, fitting together. Grey steatite. The hair of a large figure, carved in horizontal ripples with the single hairs denoted by roughly engraved wavy lines. [drawing]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): ZT. Room FF, at SW end at floor level.     
Material (Catalog Card): Steatite2     
U Number: 18314A     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Furniture >> Inlays      
Season Number: 11: 1932-1933      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 124423     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1933,1013.993     
Notes: Described as inlay on BM card, but as steatite model wig on Merlin, and something in-between in UE IV, 189     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley
[3] Data collected by British Museum research team.

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods 1955 Woolley, L. (none)
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
The "Archaic I" Phase of the Ziqqurat Terrace at Ur: A Contextual Re-Assessment. The "Archaic I" Phase of the Ziqqurat Terrace at Ur: A Contextual Re-Assessment. 2003 Benati, Giacomo (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:108 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:108 (none)
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