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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9938 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Dagger Narrow straight-sided blade with short tang (broken) and rivets. The handle had been studded with silver nails. |
| 10780 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Dagger Pommel decorated with silver double conoid studs Type 5 (new) |
| 9944 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Dagger With the blade is preserved part of the wooden handle bound and studded with silver Type__ |
| 15150 | 31-17-64 | (none) | (none) | Copper earring. 1 1/2 coils. Lunate ended. (and beads: 1 silver & 4 long carnelian; these are 15145) | |
| 14299 | (none) | 1930,1213.495 | (none) | Copper earring. 2 1/2 coils. | |
| 9605 | (none) | 1928,1010.288 | (none) | Copper Finger Ring Single coil | |
| 10475 | (none) | (none) | B17066 | Copper Object ? armour ? But it was apparently nailed into a wooden background. [drawing] Embossed on it two figures of lions and two of men and below, a disk with 8-petalled rosette. | |
| 10402 | (none) | 1928,1010.357 | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head capped with silver (broken) Type V | |
| 9993 | (none) | 1928,1010.53 | (none) | Copper Pin With lapis ball head set in silver Shaft broken Type V | |
| 9065 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin With silver ball head Copper caps on top and bottom of head - silver shows only in middle. Rectangular in section Tip missing [Type] V [drawing] |
| 9869 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin with 1 silver earring corroded on to one end. Flattened lunate ends. Pin has elongated knob head. Type I. |
| 8923 | (none) | 1928,1009.343 | (none) | Copper pin. With head of lapis ball capped with silver. (tip broken: all in very bad condition) [type] V | |
| 8061 | (none) | (none) | B17423 | Copper pin. With lapis ball head capped with silver. [Type] V. | |
| 8742 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Ribbed silver ball head. Rounded in section - broken in 4 pieces. [drawing] [type] V |
| 8027 | (none) | (none) | B17467 | Copper pin. With ball head and lapis capped with silver. The shaft much decayed and broken into 5 pieces. | |
| 8766 | (none) | (none) | B17384 | Copper pin. With ribbed lapis ball head discolored by heat. Rounded in section. Only the middle portion of the lapis ball head was showing. The upper and lower portions originally had a silver cap. Only a fragment of this remains. Pin is perforated below head. [drawing] |
| 8396 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper reticule. Originally covered with thin red leather; containing 4 silver instruments: the rings at the top of these are made with fine silver wire coiled round their stems. |
| 8971 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Lapis 3 figures before a god Broken and mended. The cylinder had silver beads and a tube of silver ran through it and was fixed to caps: the latter are decayed (and stuck to U.8972): the tube still inside. |
| 9064 | (none) | (none) | B16898 | Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Silver core Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively. | |
| 9149 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Silver (?) Apparently a presentation scene, but too corroded to be clear |
| 12079 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Silver caps (fixed to seal by hollow bitumen stem) Heroes fighting bearded bulls. (with caps). |
| 11480 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Mostly hidden by 2 silver coiled wire earrings through which it passes. [drawing 1:1] |
| 10020 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dagger Copper blade Gold handle and silver grip The blade leaf-shaped with central rib the handle of gold over wood (decayed) with lunate pommel: the handle is broken and distorted: the silver grip (attached by gold studs) is much decayed Blade in poor condition |
| 10553 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dagger Copper blade (broken) Hilt of silver with gold guard studded with lapis and gold studs on pommel: the silver all decayed. |
| 10022 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dagger Copper blade, handle of silver-plate over wood In very bad condition, blade decayed and broken, and the silver all persished [drawing 2:5] |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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