Fragments

This category includes pieces of vessels such as sherds and shards. Sherds are used to denote ceramic bodies, shards for metal and glass.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
12774N.1	(none)	(none)	(none)	Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals.
12778G.1	31-17-352G	(none)	(none)	Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design].
12780A	(none)	(none)	(none)	A collection representing different strata underlying the graves etcetera in the PG cemetery area.
13051A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked.
13746	31-16-489	(none)	(none)	Stone object. Obviously a fragment from a small shallow stone bowl (basic diorite?) rubbed down and pierced with holes. [drawing]
13752	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragments of pottery. Black ware with diagonal and horizontal lines of burnishing. (Card Received from Mallowan, 1976.)
14409	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherd from the upper part (neck) of a large vessel of pinkish drab clay, on which is part of a drawing in red lines of 2 lions facing each other on either side of a tree. [drawing]
14456	(none)	1930,1213.177	(none)	Potsherds. Of Jemdat Nasr type with 3-color decoration all from one pot, but making up only a female fr. of it (see sketch in field notes). [Annotated] Card received from Mallowan, 1976
14457	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds of plain red (plum colored) ware from the same pot, a large open bowl; but making only a small fragment of it. (card received from Mallowan 1976)
14458	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Various examples of painted wares all found near level -800: in Field notes some recorded as high as -7.6m, the bulk as -8.2m. Not in catalog.
14470	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Decorated, various. Not in catalog.
14472	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pot sherds. Belonging to a single pot, painted, of Jemdet Nasr 3-color type: may for about 1/3 of the pot.
14473	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Various, colored, all collected from stratum between -7.5m & -8.5m, mostly about -8.2m.
14486	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Various. Representing the painted & decorated wares.
14496	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay ring of uncertain use. Not in catalog. [drawing]
14903	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Various decorated examples collected from level -9m these fairly represent the contents of the stratum in colored pottery. Not in catalog.
14910	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Various. Collected from level -9m to -9.2m and reperesenting the painted pottery of that level.
14913	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Bare and a few other fragments and vase of burnished black ware. (Card received from Mallowan, 1976)
14919	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Various. Representing the decorated pottery from this stratum.
14921A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Two rings of clay [A and B]. One green, one drab. Use uncertain. Found together cf. U.14496. Not in catalog.
14936	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Various & representing the decorated wares of that stratum. Not in catalog.
14945B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay ring. Three, found one inside the other. (Also another, D, from about the same level it was found nested with 2 others, both incomplete.) Not in catalog.
14945C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay ring. Three, found one inside the other. (Also another, D, from about the same level it was found nested with 2 others, both incomplete.) Not in catalog.
14945D	31-16-712	(none)	(none)	Clay ring. Three, found one inside the other [A-C]. (Also another, D, from about the same level it was found nested with 2 others, both incomplete.) Not in catalog.
14947	(none)	(none)	(none)	Potsherds. Various. Collected from this stratum between -10m and 10.4m. Not in catalog.