9364 | 1928,1009.185
| Description (Catalog Card): | Silver bowl with long trough spout, with body finely fluted and engraved, the base outside has an eight petalled flower engraved upon it. Found inside two copper bowls. From the pre-historic graves? (Illustrated Harmsworth Universal History. part 5. facing p.481 : in color.) [card seems to be a replacement]3 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG/337 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Silver4 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | diam 10 cms length of spout 3 1/2 cms ht to rim 2 cms |
| U Number: | 93641 |
| Object Type: | Vessels/Containers >> Open Forms >> Bowls |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Culture/Period: | Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIA 2 |
| Description (Modern): | UE 2 p. 545: 'Silver bowl or lamp(?), Type 87; the shallow bowl is finely fluted and chased with bands of zigzags, on the base is chased an 8- petalled rosette. Ht. 0.02 m., d. 0.10 m., l. of trough spout 0.035 m. Found between two copper bowls and so well preserved. PG/337. Pl. 170.' M |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 120695 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.185 |
| [1] U.9361-U.9365 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 5. They were originally part of U.7809, a large group of tablet fragments found in Area SM that were later separated and given individual numbers (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). |
| [2] Hermann Müller-Karpe, Prähistorische Bronzefunde (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1983), No.51, p.32, pl.11, 149C, 173. |
| [3] Woolley's description |
| [4] Material as described by Woolley |
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) |
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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:41 Page:259 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:41 Page:259 | (none) |
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