Wreath
- Holding institution:
- Penn Museum
- Data provider:
- Penn Museum
- Title:
- Wreath
- Description:
- CBS Register: Queen Shubad's headdress. second crown. 18 gold leaves. tips of carnelian, 2 strings of lapis and carnelian. gold comb CBS 16693-One of Queen Puabi's wreaths. There are 18 gold leaves, separated by two strands of carnelian and lapis beads. Each leaf is tipped in a carnelian ring [one is missing] and is one piece of gold hammered out so that the attachment section folds over itself into four loops, which serves as a double joiner for those two strands of beads--only the top and bottom holes are used . The pattern begins and ends with a gold leaf, and for the beads between each leaf the pattern is one small carnelian ring, a barrel lapis, a carnelian ring, a barrel laps, and ending with a carnelian ring. After the eight leaf, from the right, when placed upright, the pattern breaks as the first two carnelian rings are missing. There are a total of 100 carnelian beads, not including the 17 at the tips, and 68 lapis beads.
- Type:
- Wreath
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Objects
- Type (Broader):
- Object
- Geographic region:
- Iraq
Ur - Provenance:
- British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928
- Medium:
- Gold
Lapis
Carnelian - Extent:
- 74.4
cm
8.4 - Identifier:
- 158825
- Source:
- B17709
U.10935b