EDIIIB
2450-2340
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:
Objects: EDIIIB Export: JSON - XML - CSV
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. | |
| 11821 | (none) | 1929,1017.63 | (none) | Silver Bowl. Oval, usual tubular handle-rings of electrum. Distorted & in bad condition. |
| 11823 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pair copper cockle shells. Fitted together (poor condition). |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. |
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