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)
11826A (none) (none) (none) Group of Copper Objects. Oxidized together. [A] (1) Copper Pin; type I. [B] (2) Copper Bowl: hemispherical. [C] (3) Copper Tumbler(?) or box(?) (the top not visible, being inside the bowl).
11826B (none) (none) (none) Group of Copper Objects. Oxidized together. [A] (1) Copper Pin; type I. [B] (2) Copper Bowl: hemispherical. [C] (3) Copper Tumbler(?) or box(?) (the top not visible, being inside the bowl).
11826C (none) (none) (none) Group of Copper Objects. Oxidized together. [A] (1) Copper Pin; type I. [B] (2) Copper Bowl: hemispherical. [C] (3) Copper Tumbler(?) or box(?) (the top not visible, being inside the bowl).
11837A (none) (none) (none) [A] Silver Ewer & [B] Patten. Corroded together. Ewer usual libation. (one side badly broken). Patten, with foot & carinated rim (also badly broken).
11837B (none) (none) (none) [A] Silver Ewer & [B] Patten. Corroded together. Ewer usual libation. (one side badly broken). Patten, with foot & carinated rim (also badly broken).
11865 (none) (none) (none) Copper Lamp. Normal shell type.
11880 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl.
11903 (none) 1929,1017.6 (none) Gold Pin. With lapis head capped with gold Type VI, B.
11906 (none) 1929,1017.47 (none) Frontlet. An ellipse of gold plate engraved with an 8-pointed star of the conventional type: at each end a wire for attachment, one ending in a loop, the other in a wooden button.
11909.1 (none) 1929,1017.20 (none) [.1-.2] Gold earrings. A pair. Spiral coils of heavy gold wire.
11909.2 (none) 1929,1017.21 (none) [.1-.2] Pair Gold earrings. Spiral coils of heavy gold wire.
11911 (none) 1929,1017.248 (none) Beads. Gold balls (hollow) and balls of light yellow carnelian.
11912A (none) 1929,1017.24 (none) [A-B] Gold Finger-rings (two) one with broad plain flat border & centre of cable pattern, 5 rows; one with narrow plain border and 8 rows of cable pattern.
11912B (none) 1929,1017.25 (none) [A-B] 2 Gold finger rings. 1-with broad plain flat border & centre of cable pattern, 5 rows; 1-with narrow plain border and 8 rows of cable pattern.
11917 (none) 1929,1017.632 (none) 3 Copper Vessels. (A) Shallow dish, circular with narrow trough spout; (B) similar; (C) A strainer, with handle (broken)
11920A (none) 1929,1017.628 (none) [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval. Types III and LXIII
11920B (none) 1929,1017.631 (none) [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval.
11920C (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval. Types III and LXIII
11920D (none) (none) (none) [A-D] Copper Bowls. 6, one inside the other. one hemispherical (with small button base. One ditto, slightly smaller and 4 oval. Types III and LXIII
11927 (none) 1929,1017.682 (none) Stone White calcite. Spouted pot [Drawing] [Annotated] Type CXXV
11937 (none) (none) (none) Copper Cauldron. [Drawing] Type XXI
11979 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl. Type III. Hemispherical distorted but complete.
12020 30-12-257 (none) (none) Copper Bowl Hemispherical. Type III.
12051A (none) 1929,1017.629 (none) [A] Copper Bowl. Hemispherical. Inside it a [B] shallow cup of white limestone with nicked rim. [Type] XLIII.
12121 (none) (none) (none) Copper Bowl. Hemispherical.

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