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.

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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)
11594	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Frontlet. With this, 3 beads (2 copper balls and 1 big carnelian bugle), 2 silver earrings with lunate ends, and a copper reticule.
11706	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Ring. Plain thin gold wire & 2 silver spiral-coiled wire hair-rings.
11717	(none)	1929,1017.246	(none)	Beads. Silver lentoids & lapis & carnelian lentoids. Long slender gold double conoids & carnelian rings. (see Field Notes)
11718	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis double conoids & 2 carnelians; also a pair of silver wire spiral coil earrings.
11729	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. String of lapis lentoids with 1 carnelian, 1 copper, & 1 silver bead.
11737	(none)	1929,1017.560	(none)	Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. Type V.
11738	(none)	1929,1017.561	(none)	Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V.
11744A	30-12-629	(none)	(none)	Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11744E	(none)	1929,1017.275	(none)	Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11766C	30-12-514	(none)	(none)	[A] Copper chisel (broken but complete) Type V. [B] A copper pin plain head. [C] Also, earring of plain silver wire spiral coil.
11777	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. Type XIX.
11778A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver Rings (20) and [B] lapis lazuli buttons (26) worn at the waist, either on a belt or on the fringe of a short cloak: see Field Notes.
11781	(none)	1929,1017.491	(none)	Harp. Fragments of i.e. the silver band at the foot of the upright beam, 15 copper nails serving as keys, & the silver cap of the beam, mushroom-shaped: also a quantity of inlay from the sounding-board. (see Field Notes).
11792	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Bowl. Oblong.
11794	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Bowl. Broken, distorted & decayed hemispherical? Design incised & in relief-below, conventional mountains (engraved), above, in relief, procession of mountain goats.
11804	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Bowl. Oval with silver tubular handle-attachments.
11821	(none)	1929,1017.63	(none)	Silver Bowl. Oval, usual tubular handle-rings of electrum. Distorted & in bad condition.
11822	30-12-426	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Silver Bowls. 1 inside the other, originally hemispherical with low foot-base. distorted.
11827	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis & silver bugles, double conoids & balls (see Field Notes).
11835	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver Pin. With plain lapis ball head and [B, C] a pair of hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, each hair-ring, 2 spirals interlaced.
11836	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Mostly lapis, some silver & 2 carnelian, with lapis spacer in form of 2 birds (or beetles)?
11837A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver Ewer & [B] Patten. Corroded together. Ewer usual libation. (one side badly broken). Patten, with foot & carinated rim (also badly broken).
11837B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Silver Ewer & [B] Patten. Corroded together. Ewer usual libation. (one side badly broken). Patten, with foot & carinated rim (also badly broken).
11844	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 1, very long carnelian bugle; a few smaller beads, carnelian, lapis & silver. (see Field Notes).
11884	(none)	1929,1017.328	(none)	Beads. Lapis bugles & carnelian rings from a wreath of silver beech leaves. 1-kept.