Silver
Silver is a soft, white, lustrous metal. It is highly malleable, and has a low melting point, making it easy to cast. It can be produced as a by-product of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining. It can be highly polished, leading to a very reflective surface. Most of the silver found at Ur is in jewelry, but sometimes it is made into axes or mirrors. These are found mainly in the royal tombs.
Silver is a soft, white, lustrous metal. It is highly malleable, and has a low melting point, making it easy to cast. It can be produced as a by-product of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining. It can be highly polished, leading to a very reflective surface.
Most of the silver found at Ur is in jewelry, but sometimes it is made into axes or mirrors. These are found mainly in the royal tombs.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8164 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis, carnelian and silver. About 180 in all. The lapis and carnelian are double conoids: some of the silver are the same, some are treble ball heads and some are imitation shells. Strung, silver lapis carnelian lapis silver. |
| 8667 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis, carnelian, 1 chalcedony, 1 silver disk bead (broken) and two or three gold plated beads in bad condition. See field notes. |
| 12047 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis, gold & silver, with very small carnelian rings. |
| 12278 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large facetted lentoids; 2 lapis, 1 silver. Originally attached to silver chains & forming a frontlet on the forehead. |
| 17031 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Larger beads formed a necklace, smaller a bracelet carnelian discoids, rings, balls. Glass paste balls. Miniature glass paste puzuzu heads. 1 silver ball bead. [additional notes on back of card] |
| 16384 | (none) | 1931,1010.269 | (none) | Beads. Minute silver and glass balls. |
| 11836 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Mostly lapis, some silver & 2 carnelian, with lapis spacer in form of 2 birds (or beetles)? |
| 11427 | (none) | 1929,1017.306 | (none) | Beads. Re-strung mostly in original order (see field notes). Carnelian, lapis, silver, jasper and glass. |
| 10980A | 83-7-61 | (none) | B17046 | Beads. Silver and gold double conoids. |
| 12622 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver and lapis diamonds, balls and small bugles. 2 large carnelian bugles. 1 greenish (chalcedony?) flat lentoid. |
| 6802 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver and lapis lazuli with one paste bead and one paste ring. |
| 17420 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver balls and rings. 1 carnelian barrel. 1 agate barrel. 2 facetted amethysts. |
| 17416 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver balls. [additional notes on back of card, possibly to do with workers] |
| 11717 | (none) | 1929,1017.246 | (none) | Beads. Silver lentoids & lapis & carnelian lentoids. Long slender gold double conoids & carnelian rings. (see Field Notes) |
| 8622 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver ring spacers with between them small beads of silver, lapis and carnelian The silver beads in very bad condition. Order thus [reference to drawing] see field notes. [drawing] |
| 15704 | 31-17-144 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver, agate, shell & carnelian mixed. | |
| 11472 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small beads of glaze & silver with 1 triangular steatite spacer. Poor. |
| 11501 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lapis & carnelian & silver. see Field Notes. |
| 11994 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lapis diamonds & balls, & some silver forming a bracelet. Also, 2 carnelian bugles. |
| 11493 | (none) | 1929,1017.494 | (none) | Beads. Small lapis diamonds and a few silver. Also silver rings found with the beads, and silver earrings. |
| 12306 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lapis lentoids and a few silver. |
| 8621 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lapis, with a few silver: strung together. |
| 11451 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small mixed beads: carnelian, silver, lapis. (for original order see tomb notes. |
| 8921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small silver and carnelian beads, (NB: Some of these are mixed up with U.8920) |
| 11450 | 30-12-496 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small, 1 of gold leaf over bitumen, lapis, silver and carnelian. |
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