8454F
| Description (Catalog Card): | [F-K] 6 black shale disks and [A-D] 4 square bone plaques - line engraving on one face of each plaque. (A) floral design. (B) similar. (C) lion. Portion of one side missing. (D) 4 sets of concentric curves; clear space in middle. [E] Also, 3 fragments of an engraved bone pin. The bone disks have a shallow hole in the center, half as deep as the disk is thick. This was intended to receive a wooden inlay. Wooden inlay is intact in one of the disks.2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 254 TTE |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Shale3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | Size of plaques 0019x0003 [L. 0019, W. 0019, Th. 0003] Diam. of Disks 0024 Thickness 0002 |
| U Number: | 8454F |
| Object Type: | Games and Music >> Gaming Piece 1 |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Sedimentary >> Shale |
| Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 3896 |
| Notes: | All of U8454 A-K is likely the remains of a gameboard and pieces all collected under the same IM number: IM 3896. |
| [1] Disk |
| [2] Woolley's description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/254 | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
| 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:38 Page:160 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:38 Page:160 | (none) |
- 2 Media
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Context
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTE >> Private Graves 201-300 >> PG/254
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.