8004 | 1928,1009.84
| Description (Catalog Card): | Large ball bead of lapis with gold caps. Sphere with ribbed sides.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | TTE PG 55 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lapis lazuli3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Gold3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | diam 0021 |
| U Number: | 8004 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Description (Modern): | Bead |
| Description (Modern): | String of Beads; 10 Beads2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian 2 |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 120601 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.844 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 135.902 total necklace |
| Measurement (X): | 417.002 total necklace |
| Notes: | Woolley lists 8004 as a single ball bead. British Museum two large ball beads on a larger necklace under this number. |
| [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. |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/55 | (none) | (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) |
| 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:36 Page:239 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:239 | (none) |
- 3 Media
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Context
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTE >> Private Graves 1-100 >> PG/55
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.