Description (Catalog Card): Earrings. [A] One silver, [B] one apparently copper. Plain, 2 1/2 spiral coils of wire.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): TTE PG 337(A)     
Material (Catalog Card): Copper Alloy3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): diam 0028     
U Number: 8630B     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Earrings >> Earrings      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Description (Modern): Metal Spiral2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver 2     
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 120700     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1928,1009.1904     
Measurement (Weight): 9.502     
Measurement (X): 28.102     
Measurement (Y): 28.102     
Measurement (Z): 10.002     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[3] Material as described by Woolley
[4] Data collected by British Museum research team.

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
PG/337 The earliest of the royal graves found, it was identified as such after the criteria for royal graves was established. This grave appeared in Trial Trench E and was not well mapped, but reportedly contained remains of a mudbrick wall that Woolley later interpreted as the destroyed tomb chamber associated with a death pit. (none)
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Media: 8630B | 1928,1009.190 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia 2008 Baadsgaard, Aubrey (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:66 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:66 (none)
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