9963A | 1928,1010.331
Description (Catalog Card): | [A-D] Copper spear butts (?) 4 The lower part is solid and seems to be cast: the upper part was made hollow and open down one side: the wooden shaft was inserted, the open sides brought together over it, so as to overlap and then secured by copper nails driven through the wood. [drawing]1 |
Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 777 NE Chamber |
Material (Catalog Card): | Wood3 |
Material (Catalog Card): | Copper Alloy3 |
Measurement (Catalog Card): | L from 014 to 019 |
U Number: | 9963A |
Museum: | British Museum |
Object Type: | Armor and Weaponry >> Spears and Lances >> Spearheads/Lanceheads |
Season Number: | 06: 1927-1928 |
Description (Modern): | Copper alloy lance-head, with two internal cross rivets, at a distance from each other.2 |
Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Copper Alloy |
Material: | Organic Remains >> Wood |
Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 121602 |
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1010.331 |
Measurement (Diameter): | 352 Max |
Measurement (Length): | 2242 |
[1] Woolley's description |
[2] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
[3] Material as described by Woolley |
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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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 |
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Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p194 | Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p194 | (none) | |
Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p195 | Royal Cemetary Notes 686-777_p195 | (none) | |
Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:234 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:234 | (none) | |
Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:235 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:235 | (none) |
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