Unpublished Early Dynastic Sealings from Ur in the British Museum

Iraq ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. S. Moorey
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Early Dynastic

THE BEGINNING OF THE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD AT UR

Iraq ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Benati
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Early Dynastic ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
Building Level ◽  
Regional Perspective

This article presents a reconsideration of the architecture, stratigraphy and finds from Building Level H, excavated in Trial Pit F at Ur. Analysis of Woolley's original excavation records, kept at the British Museum, provides the basis for a contextual reconstruction. A new complete study of published and unpublished materials now housed at the British Museum and at the Penn Museum of Philadelphia is offered here. Distribution of in situ artefacts is examined here in order to provide insights on the function of the excavated loci. Finally, pottery and glyptic assemblages, considered from a regional perspective, are used to define the chronological horizon of Level H.

Depletion gilding from Third Millennium BC Ur

Iraq ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. La Niece
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Gold Surface ◽  
Solid Gold ◽  
Early Dynastic ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

Three chisels (Fig. 1), excavated by Woolley (1934) in the 1920s from an Early Dynastic III grave at Ur, and now in the British Museum, were believed to be made of solid gold. Recently, however, it was noticed that the gold surface was blistering in places, revealing coppery coloured metal beneath, suggesting that they were gilded.The chisels were from a very rich grave (PG 800), known as “the Queen's Grave”. It is attributed to Queen Pu-abi (in the original excavation report her name was mistakenly transcribed as Shub-ad) and dated to c. 2600 BC. Five chisels U. 10429–33 were found with a gold saw behind a large steatite bowl which contained various copper tools. Part of the material from this grave is now in the British Museum. Other items are in the University Museum, Philadelphia, including two of the gold chisels and the gold saw, and in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. The purpose of these gold tools has never been fully explained; presumably they were symbolic rather than functional. The two small chisels in the British Museum appear to have had handles and the excavation report lists rings of gold binding (U. 10443) as “probably belonging to their [the gold tools] handles” (Woolley 1934, p. 81). Bitumen and wood handles were found on copper chisels from Ur. The larger chisel is burnished all over and appears not to have been hafted. A small chisel (U.9130) and spearhead (U.9122) from another grave (PG 580) were also examined (Figs. 2 and 4). The tools are here referred to by their Ur excavation numbers, as in Woolley's report. The British Museum Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities registration numbers are given in the concordance below.

Archaism and Kingship: A Late Royal Statue and its Early Dynastic Model

2001 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
John Baines ◽  
Christina Riggs
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Late Period ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Early Dynastic ◽  
Divine Kingship

Publication of British Museum EA 941, a Late Period or early Ptolemaic royal statue in travertine whose model is the Early Dynastic statue of Djoser (Cairo JE 49158) from the serdab on the north side of his Step Pyramid, or another statue of the same type. We present the British Museum statue, compare it with the Djoser statue, and argue for the former's likely dating and Saqqara provenance. Both statues are significant for their iconography of divine kingship and mortuary transfiguration.

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Antiquity ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (311) ◽  
pp. 248-248
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hummler
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
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British Museum ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Early Dynastic ◽  
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