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

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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)
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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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)
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)
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
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