MASCA Metallurgy Testing: Unknown sample number     
Pseudomorph: Textile?     
Description (Catalog Card): Silver Pin The shaft bent, & pierced Lapis ball head Type VI1     
Description (Archival): Shaft Bent and Pierced; lapis head CBS Register. Silver. pin. crooked.     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 777 NE Chamber     
Material (Catalog Card): Silver2     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L(as bent) 022     
U Number: 9962     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Clasps >> Pins      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 06: 1927-1928      
Description (Modern): Silver pin, Type 1 or 7. Hole near head. Ball head is missing. Slightly bent towards tip. Two holes for modern testing.      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver      
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B17075     
Measurement (Diameter): 5     
Measurement (Length): 179.0     
Measurement (Thickness): 8.0     
Measurement (X): 179     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
PG/777 A built chamber tomb with a collapsed dome, it had been robbed in antiquity but some artifacts remained along the walls. The collapsed roof of this tomb was first seen in Trial Trench E but the grave was fully excavated after the trial trenches had been opened into a larger area. This led to the discovery of a small trenched area next to the chamber that contained three skeletons, and an approach or dromos that contained another. These Woolley took to be the guards of the tomb in a small 'death pit'. There were two chambers inside the tomb, and the outer held the remains of four more people, possibly servants, while the inner may have held the royal personage. (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)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:233 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:233 (none)
Woolley's Field Note Cards Woolley's Field Note Cards Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p200 Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p200 (none)
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