Description (Catalog Card): Gold diadem. An oval strip of gold leaf with rounded ends: at each end a small hole; along the edge stamped dots. To this was attached a strip of similar thin gold, now in pieces, originally with a hole at each end for attachment to the oval front piece, but one end is missing.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): found round the skull with the oval part over the forehead PG 35 TTE     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): [oval strip of gold leaf] L 0158 w 0031 Total L 041 width 0007     
U Number: 7951     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Headdress >> Frontlets      
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Description (Modern): Diadem     
Description (Modern): Lozenge Fillet2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 120684     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1928,1009.1744     
Measurement (Weight): 4.202     
Measurement (X): 159.002     
Measurement (Y): 31.002     
Measurement (Z): 0.302     
[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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Media: 7951 | 1928,1009.174 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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:36 Page:186 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:186 (none)
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)
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