Early Dynastic / Sumerian

Description:

The Sumerian Period is a grouping of the Early Dynastic Periods which were divided by the Oriental Institute's excavations in the Diyala. This term was used during Woolley's time to refer to this span of time. It was preceded by the Jemdat Nasr Period and followed by the Akkadian Period. During this period, Kingship alternated between a number of competing dynasties, traditionally including Kish, Uruk, and Ur.

Ultra Low Chronology:

Short/Low Chronology: 2800-2230 BCE

Middle Chronology: 2900-2340 BCE

Objects: Early Dynastic / Sumerian Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
10894	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Tumbler Fluted Exactly like U.10892 badly broken
10900	30-12-488	(none)	(none)	Silver Tumbler Fluted Exactly like U 10892 Half or rim broken off (preserved) corroded on to a piece of copper [Type] LXVI
10913	30-12-489	(none)	(none)	Silver Tumbler fluted (a good deal damaged) exactly like U.10892 [Type] LXVI
10893	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Tumbler Exactly like U.10892 one side damaged & a bit missing [Type] LXVI
10861	(none)	(none)	B17082a	Silver Tumbler Exactly like U.10857 Corroded on to U.10860
10859	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Saucer With flat base and straight sides fastened by corrosion to the side of U.10855 [line drawing] See type 28
10462	(none)	1928,1010.147	(none)	Silver Pot [Type] XXXII [drawing] Inside it a silver bowl: and resting against the rim and projecting above it a silver drinking tube
10910	(none)	(none)	B17548	Silver Pot apparently thus- but squashed right in [drawing] (inside it is part of the lapis rod U.10911) Type [struck out: "XXXIII"]
11168	(none)	1928,1010.125	(none)	Silver Pin. WIth plain lapis ball head. Type V.
10569	(none)	1928,1010.121	(none)	Silver Pin With lapis ball head, the stem broken off Type V
10862	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Patten Umbilical, with flat border and raised rim Broken and distorted [Type] XXVIII
11155	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Ostrich Shell. Originally decorated on base and round the rim with incrustation in shell, lapis, and red stone. All ornament gone: the Shell much distorted and broken.
10914	(none)	1928,1010.136	(none)	Silver Offering-table In two parts which now though corroded together are displaced The foot is funnel-shaped and was made solid by a filling of bitumen: the top is covered with a silver cap: on this rested a tray with shallow upturned rim [drawing] [Type] XXXVIII
10860	(none)	(none)	B17082B	Silver Libation Jug Type XXIX [drawing] Corroded on to this are the tumbler U.10861 and a silver vessel, broken, of uncertain shape, probably a bowl.
12446	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver lamp. Shell type.
12447	(none)	1929,1017.62	(none)	Silver lamp. Shell type.
10974	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Lamp. Normal type, but unusually large, the top and end hopelessly decayed.
8902	(none)	1928,1009.186	(none)	Silver lamp. Base silver, in form of shell. [drawing]
10886	(none)	(none)	B17081	Silver Lamp Usual type: in good condition
10463	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Lamp Usual shell type Type 115 (new)
10460	(none)	1928,1010.133	(none)	Silver Jug (?) Askos shape With 2 long lugs, pierced: through this runs a twisted silver wire of which the rest, attached to a spindle whorl-shaped object, perhaps the stopper, is inside the pot. Type 113? [drawing]
10456	(none)	1928,1010.134	(none)	Silver Jug [drawing] XXX Type__
10583	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Goblet Plain Crushed flat [Type] [struck out: "LXII"] XLIX
10863	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver Cup or small tumbler Straight-sided with flattened base Type XLIX
10455	(none)	1928,1010.135	(none)	Silver Bucket (?) but with no handles [drawing] Type XXXII