9786A
| Description (Catalog Card): | [A-B] Silver wire ornaments Apparently 7, of which 6 are whole or nearly so [drawing] They seem to have been connected with silver headdress 9785, with which they were found, and might have been attached to a narrow silver ribbon found with it, or to the string of very small beads: they were not with the gold rings1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 777 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Silver2 |
| U Number: | 9786A |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces |
| Season Number: | 06: 1927-1928 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Culture/Period: | Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIA |
| Description (Modern): | Silver wire ornaments, 2 full ones, half of one, and pieces of another. One has a loop to connect it with a string, or some other such thing. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B17000 |
| Measurement (X): | 33 |
| Measurement (Y): | 14 |
| Measurement (Z): | 3 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/777 | A built chamber tomb with a collapsed dome, it had been robbed in antiquity but some artifacts remained along the walls. The collapsed roof of this tomb was first seen in Trial Trench E but the grave was fully excavated after the trial trenches had been opened into a larger area. This led to the discovery of a small trenched area next to the chamber that contained three skeletons, and an approach or dromos that contained another. These Woolley took to be the guards of the tomb in a small 'death pit'. There were two chambers inside the tomb, and the outer held the remains of four more people, possibly servants, while the inner may have held the royal personage. | (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) |
| Jansen et al. 2016. Platinum Group Placer Minerals. | Platinum group placer minerals in ancient gold artifacts-Geochemistry and osmium isotopes of inclusions in Early Bronze Age gold from Ur/Mesopotamia. | 2016 | Jansen, Moritz, Sonja Aulbach, Andreas Hauptmann, Heidi E. Hofer, Sabine Klein, Michael Kruger, and Richard L. Zettler. | (none) |
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p206 | Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p206 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:55 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:55 | (none) |
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Context
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Private Graves 701-800 >> PG/777
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.