12353C
Description (Catalog Card): | Harp with [A] inlaid sounding box, mosaic imprints, silver top bar, decorated with a [B] bull's head, beaded, in gold, below which are [C] shell plaques. |
Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 1237 |
Material (Catalog Card): | Shell |
Files
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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PG/1237 | Woolley called this the 'Great Death Pit' because it is the largest of all the death pits in the royal cemetery. He found 74 bodies within but did not find a built chamber, an aspect he believed essential to royal tombs. Woolley declared the chamber must have been completely looted away and pointed to small amounts of rubble as evidence of this, but in fact the large size of this death pit and the particular wealth displayed by Body 61 may indicate that the primary burial was among the attendants in this case. | (none) |
- 1 Location
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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![]() | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
![]() | UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:52 Page:224 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:52 Page:224 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p161 | Royal Cemetary Notes 1130-1237_p161 | (none) |
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