Gold
Gold is a metal that is solid in standard conditions, and appears as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits. It has very high malleability, which means it can be hammered and cast very thin without breaking. It is also resistant to corrosion and its bright yellow color and high luster led to it being in high demand. It can be used as material for stand alone objects like vessels or jewelry, and because of its malleability can also be used to cover objects with a thin sheet of gold.
Gold is a metal that is solid in standard conditions, and appears as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits. It has very high malleability, which means it can be hammered and cast very thin without breaking. It is also resistant to corrosion and its bright yellow color and high luster led to it being in high demand. It can be used as material for stand alone objects like vessels or jewelry, and because of its malleability can also be used to cover objects with a thin sheet of gold.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10440C | (none) | 1928,1010.58 | (none) | (none) |
| 10440D | (none) | 1928,1010.59 | (none) | (none) |
| 10440E | (none) | 1928,1010.60 | (none) | (none) |
| 10440F | (none) | 1928,1010.61 | (none) | (none) |
| 10440G | (none) | 1928,1010.62 | (none) | (none) |
| 10440H | (none) | 1928,1010.63 | (none) | (none) |
| 10440I | (none) | 1928,1010.64 | (none) | (none) |
| 10440J | (none) | 1928,1010.65 | (none) | (none) |
| 10440K | (none) | 1928,1010.66 | (none) | (none) |
| 10441 | (none) | 1928,1010.67 | (none) | Narrow gold [struck out: undecipherable] edging, three-sided, like the gold edging on the base of the harp: it was found by the side of the box (near side) especially towards the middle of it, and associated with fragments of narrow lapis strips and shell inlay figures: Probably it formed, with the lapis, a frame for the decorative mosaic panel. |
| 10443 | (none) | 1928,1010.69, 1928,1010.70 | (none) | Gold Binding From the handles of tools: 3 pieces: found more or less close to the gold and copper chisels U.10429, etc. but not in a position proving connection with any of them. |
| 10444A | (none) | 1928,1010.297 | (none) | Gold Impressions from cylinder seals (3) Very thin gold foil which has been pressed into seals so as to take the engraving. Found near box. |
| 10444B | (none) | 1928,1010.833 | (none) | [A-C] Gold Impressions from Cylinder seals 3 Very thin gold foil which has been pressed into seals so as to take the engraving |
| 10444C | (none) | 1928,1010.834 | (none) | Gold Impressions from cylinder seals (3) Very thin gold foil which has been pressed into seals so as to take the engraving. Found near box. |
| 10445C | (none) | 1928,1010.160 | (none) | [A-D] 4 long slender rods of copper, two silver plated [A,B], two gold plated [C,D]. Corroded together at ? and the gold rods were found apart and are formally 2 distinct rods. Use quite unknown: nothing found with them to explain. | |
| 10445D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 long slender rods of copper, two silver plated [A,B], two gold plated [C,D]. Corroded together at ? and the gold rods were found apart and are formally 2 distinct rods. Use quite unknown: nothing found with them to explain. |
| 10448 | (none) | (none) | B16699 | Gold earring Normal type with thickened ends to spiral [drawing] 1:1 |
| 10449 | (none) | (none) | B17568 | Frontlet. Composed of two pieces of gold chain each 135mm, long: between which are beads, 2 carnelian and 1 gold bugle with lapis beads between them. With the body crouched at the foot of the box. | |
| 10450 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Drinking [struck out: "sceptic?'] Tube made of cylindrical lengths of lapis and gold strung on silver wire, or slender rod: it lay along the end of the box and one end was bent down into the large silver pot U____ also, half in this was a piece of silver tube which is probably the head of the sceptre. |
| 10451 | (none) | (none) | B17692 | Gold Lamp bowl with sloped straight sides rising from a ridge foot, with narrow carinated rim: from the rim projects a trough spout. (orig. circular, now bent) | |
| 10452 | (none) | 1928,1010.5 | (none) | Gold Goblet [drawing] |
| 10453 | (none) | (none) | B17691 | Gold Tumbler Straight-sided: the sides fluted: around top and bottom a herring-bone pattern and a double zigzag: on the base an eight-petalled rosette imposed on concentric cirlces: all designs done by chisel and hammer engraving; at one point on the rim a tiny ring-coil (horizontal) as if for suspension. (Dented in) | |
| 10454 | (none) | 1928,1010.6 | (none) | Gold Spouted vessel. On a small solid base, oval, an oval bowl like a flattened half-egg: the sides fluted with herring-bone and double zigzag pattern engraved round rim and above base. From low on one side rises a tubular spout, curved and growing thinner to the tip. (Bent in). Found with gold and silver vessels at the far end of box [drawing] photo 1042 |
| 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. | |
| 10477 | (none) | 1928,1010.411 | (none) | Whetstone Grey stone, broken, hung on a loop of gold wire [drawing] 1:1 |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Iron - Lead - Silver
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