Description: The Early Dynastic IIIb period is approximately the century before the Akkadian Empire.  The beginning of this sub-period is hard to define, being based on stylistic changes in the material remains.  It is marked by a change in glyphs and cylinder seals from a steep angling of figures into a compact frieze.  This period has marginally more historical sources than the preceding sub-periods, mainly from the city-state of Lagash.  

Ultra-Low Chronology: 

Short/Low Chronology: 2375-2230

Medium Chronology: 2450-2340 BCE

Long/High Chronology: 

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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)
10743 (none) (none) B16939 Copper Bowl Hemispherical Type__
10785 (none) (none) (none) Group of copper vases Corroded together Including an oval bowl, and a hemispherical bowl Type LXIII
10786 (none) (none) (none) Copper Beaker. Bent and battered. Normal type. Type 49.
10816B (none) 1928,1010.590 (none) Tomb Group. (A) Beads from neck: gold double conoids, carnelian rings, lapis double conoids forming top string. Middle string: lapis double conoids. Bottom string: silver double conoids. (B) Fragments of decayed silver earrings. (C) Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. (D) decayed miniature clay vase, pinkish drab friable surface. (E) [E and G] Pair of cockle shells, blue and greenish paint mixed. (F) Five or six shell rings.
10918 (none) (none) (none) Silver Bowl fragment of (half only) orig. hemispherical with slight base. [Type] III
11100 (none) (none) (none) Copper bowl. Hemispherical. Type III.
11201 (none) (none) (none) Gold Tubing. Bent and battered. From decayed silver sucking bowl; used like a straw for sipping liquid.
11523A (none) 1929,1017.645 (none) Group of copper objects. Found together. (A) Copper bowl, hemispherical. Type III. (B) Copper Adze. (C) Copper dagger riveted tang. (D) Copper knife.
11540A (none) 1929,1017.633 (none) Copper vessels. An oval bowl and inside it a hemispherical bowl. Also fragments of a long-handled strainer. [Type] LXIII, III
11551 (none) (none) (none) Gold Cup. Miniature. Base square & sides change to an oval (possibly this is accidental & the original form was circular above, but the cup has been slightly crushed). Type 16 variant.
11712 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl. Hemispherical.
11736B (none) 1929,1017.23 (none) [A-B] Gold Hair-rings. 2 spiral coils of gold wire.
11738 (none) 1929,1017.561 (none) Pin. Copper with lapis ball head (stem broken). Type V.
11742B (none) 1929,1017.240 (none) Beads. Frontlet. Small gold ring pendants [A] (13) string on 3 rows of beads [B]: between each pair one very small lapis bead, one carnelian tubular bead, one very small lapis bead.
11743D (none) 1929,1017.267 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743E (none) 1929,1017.268 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743F (none) 1929,1017.269 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743G (none) 1929,1017.270 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743H (none) 1929,1017.271 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743I (none) 1929,1017.272 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743J (none) 1929,1017.273 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743K (none) 1929,1017.274 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11821 (none) 1929,1017.63 (none) Silver Bowl. Oval, usual tubular handle-rings of electrum. Distorted & in bad condition.
11822 30-12-426 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Silver Bowls. 1 inside the other, originally hemispherical with low foot-base. distorted.
11823 (none) (none) (none) Pair copper cockle shells. Fitted together (poor condition).

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