9239
Description (Catalog Card): | Offering table Limestone White Made in 2 pieces Part of table missing1 |
Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 348 TTE |
Material (Catalog Card): | Limestone3 |
Measurement (Catalog Card): | Ht 046 rim 044 ase 027 |
U Number: | 9239 |
Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
Object Type: | Furniture >> Offering Tables |
Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
Description (Modern): | plaster cast of ceramic original height and width are incomplete CBS Register: field number is a little messy and unclear. limestone offering table. not decorated. foot diameter 265 mm . Upper tray diam. 455 mm. Height. 432 mm. PG 348 2014 Description: Stone offering table. The top of the table is circular and is concave in the middle with a rounded upturned rim. The base of the table is cylindrical with a concave sides and a flared out base. The center of the bottom has been partially hallowed out. The surface of the stone has been covered with a plaster layer followed by a paint layer. The paint has a tan under layer with a dark brown overcoat. It is unclear how much of the surface is original.2 |
Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Sedimentary >> Limestone |
Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B17246 |
[1] Woolley's description |
[2] Data collected during Penn Museum conservation review of ceramics. |
[3] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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PG/348 | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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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:41 Page:141 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:41 Page:141 | (none) |
- 2 Media
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Context
Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTF >> Private Graves 301-400 >> PG/348
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.