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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
(none) (none) 1929,1017.636 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1931,1010.529 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1935,0113.735 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1825,0503.76 (none) (none)
10004 (none) (none) (none) Gold Lamp Ordinary flat shell type At the tip of the spout the metal is bent into a coil On the base inscr. "Mes-Kalam-dug"
10024A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Lamps Silver, two were found, one inside the other: the outer lamp completely decayed, the inner in good condition.
10024B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Lamps Silver, two were found, one inside the other: the outer lamp completely decayed, the inner in good condition.
10175 (none) (none) (none) Copper Lamp In imitation of a shell; with shallow trough spout Type __
10325 (none) (none) (none) Copper Lamp With trough spout Shaped in imitation of a shell Normal type
10451 (none) (none) B17692 Gold Lamp bowl with sloped straight sides rising from a ridge foot, with narrow carinated rim: from the rim projects a trough spout. (orig. circular, now bent)
10463 (none) (none) (none) Silver Lamp Usual shell type Type 115 (new)
10565 (none) (none) B17280 Copper Lamp usual shell type
10746 (none) (none) B16919, B17087 Calcite Lamp Translucent. White Decorated with a man-headed couchant bull in relief. Head horned and bearded. Beard, mane, and all hairy portions of body painted black. Much of paint remains and has been preserved.
10820D (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group. (A)[A and G] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. 1-broken and part missing. (B) [B and H] 2 cockle shells with green paint (both broken) (C) Broken silver finger ring, 4 strands of wire, the 2 middle strands spiral. Part missing. (D) Large shell of the type used to serve as a lamp. Badly broken. (E) Few silver double conoids, a few lapis and remains of glazed frit ring beads. (F) A copper pin with a copper ball head. Badly broken. Type V.
10886 (none) (none) B17081 Silver Lamp Usual type: in good condition
10974 (none) (none) (none) Silver Lamp. Normal type, but unusually large, the top and end hopelessly decayed.
11225 (none) (none) (none) Copper Lamp and Bowl. Corroded together. Lamp: head end slightly broken, normal shell type.
11517 (none) (none) (none) Shell. Cut as a lamp.
11569 (none) (none) (none) Copper Lamp. Usual shell shape. One side badly broken & parts of it missing: otherwise well preserved.
11597A (none) (none) (none) Group. [A](1) Shell, cut as a lamp & engraved with the head & neck of a bird (the eye orginally inlaid but inlay is missing) [drawing] [B](2) Copper Dagger (broken). Type IV; [C](3) Copper pin with lapis ball head (broken)[Type] V.
11741 (none) (none) (none) Copper Lamp. Usual type.
11783 (none) (none) (none) Copper Lamp. Usual shell type. Extreme L. 190mm
11795 (none) 1929,1017.60 (none) Lamp. White calcite. Normal form but with human-headed bull carved below in relief, head forming the spout.
11865 (none) (none) (none) Copper Lamp. Normal shell type.
12135 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster Lamp. In imitation of shell. At spout end a bearded bull in relief.
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