19086
Description (Catalog Card): | Inlay, or gaming pieces and inlay. 7 shell squares each originally engraved which were inlaid between borders of narrow brown wood(?) strips: also 5 shale disks each inlaid with 5 large white dots and 1, 2, or 3 small red dots; and two square shale pieces each inlaid with 5 white dots (probably there were more which were lost); the shell squares are inlay, the others may be gaming pieces. [drawing 1:1]1 |
Find Context (Catalog Card): | B34 |
Material (Catalog Card): | Shell2 |
Material (Catalog Card): | Shale2 |
[1] Woolley's description |
[2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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PJB/34 | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:75 Page:37 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:75 Page:37 | (none) | |
Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
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Context
Excavation Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> PJ >> Pit X >> PJB >> PJB/34
References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.