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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8376A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis bugles, small, and carnelian rings. These went to complete the triple collar with silver rings attached. See field notes item 8. |
| 8376C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver. Some quadruple tubes from dog collar string, large lentoids which went with the larger lapis lentoids (U.8376B) and smaller beads. |
| 8377 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads etc. Large silver rings to which are attached spacers pierced by 3 holes: between these were set lapis bugles flanked by carnelian rings: see field notes. Part of the chain preserved as found. |
| 8382 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver earring. Ordinary type. [drawing] 1:1 |
| 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. |
| 8404 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin Round in section. Ball head of stone, originally gold plated. Broken in 2 pieces. [Type] V. |
| 8405A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Pair of silver rings. Corroded together. 2 1/2 coils. |
| 8408 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver ring. One and a half coils. |
| 8439 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. 29 beads in all 10 barrel carnelian, 4 silver double conoids the rest lapis double conoids. Found in ground in following order: 1 silver 2 lapis 1 carnelian 1 hematite?? 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 large lapis 1 silver 3 lapis 1 carnelian 4 lapis 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 carnelian 2 lapis 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 carnelian ETC Carnelian barrel beads, silver and lapis double conoids. |
| 8440A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 silver earrings. 2 1/2 coils. |
| 8493 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver ring 2 1/2 coils of fairly thick silver wire |
| 8497 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads Worn over a silver diadem round the forehead. String consists of minute lapis ball beads and of oblong rectangular gold and lapis spacers. Gold and lapis spacers strung alternately with lapis and carnelian beads placed alternately between each spacer. Carnelian beads all minute ring beads. The silver diadem was entirely broken and destroyed. 6 gold spacers; 6 lapis lazuli spacers. |
| 8523A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Silver earrings. A pair, made of 3 1/2 spiral coils of plain silver wire. |
| 8524A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver diadem Broken It appears to be formed of 2 separate parts: (A) A strip of thin silver plate (apparently plain) 0022 wide and about 018 long tapering to curved ends wherein are attachment holes: and (B) A strip of thin silver 005 wide twisted with a spiral coil so as to act as a spring: this appeared to be attached to (A) and to go round the back of the head. |
| 8531A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 Finger-rings Silver Made of plain silver wire One intact, 2 broken |
| 8545.1 | (none) | 1928,1009.193 | (none) | [.1-.2] Silver earrings Ring-shaped A pair, each made of 2 1/2 spiral coils of plain silver wire |
| 8573 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver earrings. A pair. Plain circlets of silver wire. |
| 8598 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver pin(?) Flat blade rolled over at the end: round shaft ending in a point. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8605B | 30-12-536 | (none) | (none) | [A] Silver wire. Finely twisted 2-ply wire and [B] fragments of a silver tube(?) | |
| 8619 | (none) | 1928,1009.188 | (none) | Silver pin. With fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold. |
| 8620 | (none) | 1928,1009.83 | (none) | Beads. Carnelian double conoids, and a few silver ditto, large. The silver much decayed. |
| 8621 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lapis, with a few silver: strung together. |
| 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] |
| 8630A | (none) | 1928,1009.190 | (none) | Earrings. [A] One silver, [B] one apparently copper. Plain, 2 1/2 spiral coils of wire. | |
| 8644 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Bugles of lapis (and hematite?). Silver beads and a few carnelian rings. For order see field notes. |
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