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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8688 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Finger ring of plain thin gold wire. |
| 8689A | (none) | (none) | B16956 | Gold beads. Double conoids. Originally strung with the lapis beads U.8689B. 36 in all. | |
| 8693 | (none) | (none) | B16798 | Diadem. Composed of two pieces of gold (imitation chain) and 3 beads, large lentoids, 2 of lapis, 1 of gold. See field notes. The gold 'chains' are made of 4 strings of twisted 2-ply gold wire soldered together: one has come unsoldered at the end. The beads must have come in the middle of the forehead and a string must have connected the gold pieces behind the head. | |
| 8694 | (none) | (none) | B16845 | Earring. Gold. 1/2 spiral coils of gold wire with flattened and pointed ends. [drawing] Only 1 in the grave. | |
| 8704 | (none) | 1928,1009.61 | (none) | Necklace Consisting of 111 lapis lazuli beads - double conoids 26 gold double conoids Apparently the gold beads were in the centre of the necklace, gold and lapis being alternated. |
| 8705A | (none) | (none) | B16841a | [A-B] 2 gold earrings. 2 1/2 coils of fairly thick gold wire. | |
| 8705B | (none) | (none) | B16841b | [A-B] 2 gold earrings. 2 1/2 coils of fairly thick gold wire. |
| 8707 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace 236 lapis lazuli beads - mostly ball beads 1 ribbed gold ball bead |
| 8708A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 gold earrings. 2 1/2 coils of thick gold wire. |
| 8752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 1 gold foil diadem. Broken in 3 pieces. Each end perforated for attachment to forehead. |
| 8760 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Rounded in section. Lapis? ball head with gold ring round middle. [Type] V |
| 8762A.1 | (none) | 1928,1009.169 | (none) | [A.1-.2] 2 gold earrings. 2 1/2 coils of fairly thick gold wire. |
| 8762A.2 | (none) | 1928,1009.169 | (none) | [A.1-.2] 2 gold earrings. 2 1/2 coils of fairly thick gold wire. |
| 8781A | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis. |
| 8786A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 1/2 coils of thin gold wire attached to 2 1/2 coils of fairly thick copper wire. |
| 8786B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 1/2 coils of thin gold wire attached to 2 1/2 coils of fairly thick copper wire. |
| 8790 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diadem. Gold foil. Poor condition. Broken in two pieces. Portion missing. Each end perforated. Badly bent. Roughly lentoid shape. Found in position on forehead. [drawing] |
| 8791 | (none) | 1928,1009.159 | (none) | Earring. Two crescents on a thin gold wire [drawing] |
| 8794 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. About 18 gold beads, 18 lapis - ball beads, ring beads and a few double conoids. Gold and lapis strung alternately, ball beads between the double conoids. |
| 8843A | (none) | (none) | B16371 | Gold ear ring. Conical in shape and rising in two tiers. The base consists of 7 gold ball beads; above them a strip of gold foil with vertical ribs and two rims of a single coil of gold wire. Above this narrow hub and above the hub a second strip of ribbed gold foil about half the diameter of the first. On the top a thin plate of gold with 2 minute gold rings through which is passed a semicircular piece of copper wire. Upon this copper wire between the gold rings swivels the gold pin. The gold pin is a circular piece of wire with detached ends which originally fastened the earring to the ear. Intact Neo-Babylonian Period. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Boss. Center piece of electrum encased in gold foil which has a single line of beaded decoration. Circular. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold diadem. Made of sheet gold, an oval 0185 x 0065, with a star rosette in the center made with impressed lines: at each end of the hole through which pass the gold wires for attachment behind the head. |
| 8918 | (none) | 1928,1009.69 | (none) | Beads. A necklace composed of small diamond-shaped lapis beads and of flat gold disk beads strung alternately. NB. Either some of the of the gold beads were not found or else at the back there was lapis only. |
| 8920 | (none) | 1928,1009.77 | (none) | Beads. A string of small lentoids of lapis and of gold foil over copper (the latter in bad condition) strung in alternate sets of 6. |
| 8930 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold ring spacer. [drawing 1:1] |
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Copper Alloy - Electrum - Iron - Lead - Silver
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