8616B | 1928,1009.165
| Description (Catalog Card): | [A-B] Gold earrings. A pair. [drawing 1:1]1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 337 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Gold3 |
| U Number: | 8616B |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Earrings >> Earrings |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Description (Modern): | SmLunate2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 120675 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.1654 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 5.002 |
| Measurement (X): | 40.002 |
| Measurement (Y): | 40.002 |
| Measurement (Z): | 23.002 |
| [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/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) |
| 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:52 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:52 | (none) |
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References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.