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The Ur workshop was organized to discuss the progress and preliminary results of the ongoing research project. The first results obtained i...

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This submission, succinctly titled "An Introduction," transparently serves as a prefatory piece for a collection of articles or abstracts stemming fro...

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Andreas Hauptmann, Sabine Klein

Golden Artifacts from the Royal Tombs of Ur, Mesopotamia

History

Visual inspection of the gold artifacts from Ur shows that there are variations of color and this should be to be expected with gold alloys...

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The paper, "Golden Artifacts from the Royal Tombs of Ur, Mesopotamia," proposes a fascinating investigation into the advanced metallurgical practices...

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Sabine Klein, Susan La Niece, Andreas Hauptmann

Objects from the Ur collection of the British Museum Sampling and Analytical Investigations

Materials

In addition to the material from the Penn Museum, which was already accessible in generous volume, access was requested to The British Muse...

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This paper presents an important analytical investigation into a selection of metallic objects from the Ur collection housed at the British Museum. Bu...

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Moritz Jansen, Andreas Hauptmann, Sabine Klein

Where Does the Gold from the Cemetery of Ur Come From? – Provenancing Gold Sources Using Analytical Methods

Geology

The focus of our analysis is on the richly decorated Early Dynastic Royal Tombs. These graves are mixed in date and grouped here as  A...

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This manuscript addresses a compelling and historically significant question: the ultimate origin of the substantial gold artifacts recovered from the...

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Kim Benzel

Technologies of Jewelry at Ur: the Physics & Metaphysics of Skilled Crafting

Anthropology

In this brief examination of Pu-abi’s jewelry, several technical aspects must reiterated and stressed because they have as much conceptual...

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This paper presents a highly insightful and compelling argument regarding the sophisticated interplay between material science, artistic choice, and c...

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Barbara Armbruster

Technological Aspects of Selected Gold Objects from Ur - Preliminary Results and Perspectives

Anthropology

The focus of this paper is to present preliminary results of a study of selected goldwork from the Royal Cemetery of Ur focusing on the tec...

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This paper, "Technological Aspects of Selected Gold Objects from Ur - Preliminary Results and Perspectives," addresses a fascinating and historically...

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Sabine Klein, Andreas Hauptmann

Ur, Mesopotamia: The Lead Metal from Pit X

History

Three complete bottle-wrapped seal combinations were found in the various Ur collections: Two in the Penn Museum’s collection, and a third...

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This study presents a focused investigation into the provenance of lead metal excavated from Ur, Mesopotamia, a topic of considerable interest for und...

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Eveline Salzmann, Sabine Klein, Andreas Hauptmann

Analytical Investigations on Silver, Copper and the Earliest Tin Bronzes from Ur

Anthropology

The present study is focused on the investigation of metal objects: particularly copper, arsenical copper, copper-tin alloys and silver obj...

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This manuscript, "Analytical Investigations on Silver, Copper and the Earliest Tin Bronzes from Ur," outlines a study of significant archaeological in...

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Leigh Bettenay

Do Australian 19th Century Gold Discoveries have Implications for Interpreting Early Gold Mining Elsewhere?

History

Eight discovery histories of well-documented Australian goldfields indicate the bonanza recoveries available to “first-movers” into previou...

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This paper presents a compelling analysis of well-documented 19th-century Australian gold discovery histories, using them as a valuable analogue for i...

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This paper, "The Making of Roman Lead Ingots," presents a compelling interdisciplinary approach to understanding ancient metallurgical practices. The...