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)
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.
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)
9777A	(none)	(none)	B17550	[A-B] Spindles A pair Silver spindles with lapis whorls both very slender
9777B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Spindles a pair Silver spindles with lapis whorls both very slender (broken into 4 pieces and whorl also separate.)
9783	(none)	(none)	B17677	Beads 14 gold ring spacers and a quantity of small lapis beads and carnelian rings: for order see Field Notes. With them are mixed the smaller lapis beads mentioned in the Field Notes as probably belonging to the headdress. [drawing 1:1]
9785	(none)	(none)	B17005	Silver Head Ornament shaped as a lotus(?) flower with long stem and 7 points (petals?) tipped with lapis balls. Broken a few bits missing. [drawing]
9787	(none)	(none)	B17588	Gilt Ornaments. Short copper rods, 006 long, originally encased with very thin gold. Some of these had attached to one end of them 2 small gold leaves: others had a gold flower rosette and the gold leaf had come off. Probably part of the head ornament 9785. Others had a rim round the stem near but not at the end: and there were found fragments of hollow gold leaf-like balls which may have gone above these so as rather to resemble a pomegranate. The copper stems were pierced with very small holes 0005 apart so must have served as spacers for beads, or else been sewn onto something. One of the gold flowers was fixed to a double silver bead, and to one also silver rosettes were similarly attached. [additional drawing on back of card] [drawing]
9798	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Chain 4 fragment, in bad condition: The same type as the heavy gold chain found elsewhere
9800A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. (A) Consisting of 2 strings of beads. Upper string: 2 small lapis double conoids and 2 silver diamonds strung alternately; silver beads decayed. (B) Lower string: 2 carnelian double conoids, 1 glazed lentoid strung alternatively; glazed beads mostly perished.