Description (Catalog Card): Copper vase. Shaped rather like a samovar and carved with an open network of twisted silver wire. One end open and the edge here missing (it stood in the soil with this thin end uppermost) Type 122     
Find Context (Catalog Card): TTE PG 337     
Material (Catalog Card): Copper Alloy3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): ht 030 greatest diam 0175     
[1] Müller-Karpe
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley
[4] Hermann Müller-Karpe, Prähistorische Bronzefunde (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1983), No.1488, p.222, pl.S, 137, 149C.
[5] Data collected by British Museum research team.

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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)
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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Metallgefäße im Iraq I Metallgefäße im Iraq I 1993 Müller-Karpe, Michael (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:64 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:64 (none)
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