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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9632 | (none) | (none) | B16933 | Silver Pin Plain rounded head Type IX | |
| 9635 | (none) | (none) | B16936 | Silver finger ring A double hoop of plain thin wire | |
 | 9639 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Gold, carnelian, lapis, agate, and silver. In original order( see Field Notes) |
| 9649 | (none) | 1928,1010.701 | (none) | Silver earrings. Loops of 2 1/2 spiral coils of thin silver wire. 1 ring partly broken. |
| 9683 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small lapis diamonds and silver-plate beads Found by the pin 9682 and probably used to fasten to it the cylinder seal 9681 |
| 9684 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ring, silver Double hoop of plain wire. |
| 9686A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Pair Silver Bracelets Plain wire hoop, broken and in poor condition. |
| 9686B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Silver Bracelets a pair Plain wire hoop, broken and in poor condition |
| 9700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold and silver earring 3 large lunar rings; the two outer rings in silver, the inner ring in gold. One silver wire suspender missing. |
| 9704A | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Strings of beads. (a) Long double conoid lapis beads; 1 carnelian ditto; 1 chrysoprase? [not legible] ditto; 4 tubular agate beads; silver ball beads. (for order of stringing see Field Note) (b) 12 gold tubular beads; 8 gold diamonds; 7 carnelian diamonds; 1 banded crystal tube; 9 lapis tubes; 4 carnelian tubes; decayed silver diamonds and double conoids. (for order see Field Notes) |
| 9704B | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Strings of beads. (a) Long double conoid lapis beads; 1 carnelian ditto; 1 chrysoprase? [not legible] ditto; 4 tubular agate beads; silver ball beads. (for order of stringing see Field Note) (b) 12 gold tubular beads; 8 gold diamonds; 7 carnelian diamonds; 1 banded crystal tube; 9 lapis tubes; 4 carnelian tubes; decayed silver diamonds and double conoids. (for order see Field Notes) |
| 9708A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Bangles. (4) [A-B] 2 silver, [C-D] 2 copper. Copper bangles are heavy C-shaped pieces, adhering to one of these part of a silver bangle of similar shape but lighter and thinner. Both silver bangles badly broken. |
| 9708B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Bangles. (4) [A-B] 2 silver, [C-D] 2 copper. Copper bangles are heavy C-shaped pieces, adhering to one of these part of a silver bangle of similar shape but lighter and thinner. Both silver bangles badly broken. |
| 9711 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Pin Elongated knob head Tip missing Rounded in section, broken in 2 pieces. [drawing] 1:1 Type I |
| 9726A | (none) | (none) | B17026 | [A-B] 2 copper? Earrings. Corroded together. Solid ends. [drawing] | |
| 9727 | (none) | (none) | B17027 | 1 Silver earring Flat, lunar ends [drawing] | |
| 9735 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 3 strings Top string: lapis diamond beads; middle string: silver ball beads; Bottom string: glazed double conoids (decayed) |
| 9752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Balls of gold-plating over copper, rock crystal rings, 1 lapis lentoid with gold caps, originally bound with a spiral or silver wire, 1 carnelian lentoid (see Field Notes) |
| 9754 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. From a string of small lapis beads alternating with silver, the silver mostly perished, many of the lapis are mixed up with 9753. |
| 9755 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earrings Small gold hoops with lunate ends hanging on silver rings, the latter broken and decayed |
| 9766 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Earring Gold and silver A gold coil with lunate ends interlaced with silver ditto Type __ |
| 9767 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold balls, agate lentoids, and some silver balls; mostly in original order: see Field Notes. |
| 9768A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Bracelets, silver A pair Plain wire hoops with open ends (one broken) |
| 9768B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Bracelets, silver A pair Plain wire hoops with open ends (one broken) |
| 9777A | (none) | (none) | B17550 | [A-B] Spindles A pair Silver spindles with lapis whorls both very slender |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Gold - Iron - Lead
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