8612
| Description (Catalog Card): | Gold ribbon. A mass of very thin gold ribbon, wide: originally a single length, now broken into a number of pieces. See field notes.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | TTE PG 337 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Gold2 |
| U Number: | 8612 |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Headdress >> Ribbons |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Culture/Period: | Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIA |
| Description (Modern): | Ribbon |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B16775 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 36.103 |
| Measurement (X): | 3953.003 |
| Measurement (Y): | 6.403 |
| Measurement (Z): | 0.803 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
| [3] Aubrey Baadsgaard, Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008). |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/337 | The earliest of the royal graves found, it was identified as such after the criteria for royal graves was established. This grave appeared in Trial Trench E and was not well mapped, but reportedly contained remains of a mudbrick wall that Woolley later interpreted as the destroyed tomb chamber associated with a death pit. | (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) |
| 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:39 Page:48 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:48 | (none) |
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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTE >> PG/337
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.