8914D | 1928,1009.389
| Description (Catalog Card): | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | TTF About 2m from the surface, but not connected with any grave |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Shell1 |
| U Number: | 8914D |
| Object Type: | Tools and Equipment >> Whorls, Weights, Plumb Bobs >> Spindle Whorls |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Description (Modern): | Merlin: 'Flat shell hemisphere with slightly concave base; top of staff or dagger.' UE 2 pp. 539: 'Handle; a knob of white steatite from which projects a copper rod; on this were strung rings of black shale and white shell alternately, 5 of each, and beyond them on the copper there were traces of wood. With these there lay loose 13 shell cone-shaped disks like spindle-whorls. The object may have been a ritual flail with the disks strung on its thongs. Found loose in the soil at a depth of 2.00 m., not connected apparently with any grave. Cf. U. 8935; v. p. 260. (L. BM. 120844-5, 123641-7.) (P. CBS. 16970.)' |
| Material: | Organic Remains >> Shell |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 123643 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.3892 |
| [1] Material as described by Woolley |
| [2] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTF | TTF is shorthand for Trial Trench F, the first extension of TTE. Like the other trenches in the royal cemetery it was never mapped and does not appear on an aerial photograph. The trench was dug on the same lines as TTE, essentially extending its width, and the only report that shows its southern line is a mention of the location of PG513 within it. This grave rested upon the ruined northwest wall of PG777, which means that TTF must have met TTE at PG777, since the roof of that grave was revealed in TTE. TTF therefore extended the width of TTE to the northwest. The calculated location of TTF crosses over at least the southern end of TTA. This trench had been dug four years prior and had not been overly deep. It would likely have been mostly collapsed by this point, accounting for the somewhat different line of it and the season 5 trenches TTE, TTF, and TTG. While TTE was almost certainly around 4 meters in width as had been previous trial trenches, TTF and TTG may have been wider in order to find more graves. The only indication is the 1930 aerial photograph that shows an extent in the northwest portion of the cemetery that may go as far as 17 meters from the northwest edge of TTE. It is by no means certain, but a trench width of 6-7 meters (twice that of TTE) is suggested for each of TTF and TTG. The first grave to be given a PG number in TTF was PG227. From this point, the sequence of grave numbers is shared between the two trenches, eventually to be supplemented with TTG. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:40 Page:46 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:40 Page:46 | (none) |
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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTF
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.