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Artefacts collected by James Roberts Ogden
Ogden, James Roberts (1865-1940)
2000 BCE-1940
This collection includes jewellery, beads, ornaments, seals, coins, pottery, cuneiform tablets, facsimilie objects and glass slides. Many items are said to be from Ur, ancient Mesopotamian (now Iraq)...
cylinder seal and impression
c. 2500-2000 BCE
A cylinder seal with a hole through it, described as 'green stone', and an impression which has been cracked into three pieces and later joined together. A separate pink impression is loose. In list...
cylinder seal and impressions
c.1800 BCE
A cylinder seal with a hole through it is slightly chipped. It is boxed with a white impression, which had been broken in two pieces and later joined together. A separate pink impression is loose. ...
cylinder seal and impressions
c.2400-2300 BCE
A cylinder seal of lapis lazuli has a hole through it . It is boxed with a white impression. A separate pink impression is loose. The label reads "Lapis lazuli cylinder seal" In listings it is des...
cylinder seal and impressions
c. 2000 -1800 BCE
A cylinder seal of hematite with a hole through it. It is boxed with a white impression. A separate pink impression is loose. The label reads "Hematite in modern gold setting. The weather god (Amu...
replica gold monkey pin
c. 1929
A replica of a copper pin with a seated gold monkey finial. Described as a replica of one found at the royal tombs at Ur. This may be a replica of the Gold monkey of Meskalamdug. This piece has pos...
fragments of gold
c. 2100 - 2000 BCE
A group of worked gold pieces, said to be found at the royal tombs at Ur. One piece is uniform in shape with a rounded end; larger pieces have manmade holes.
specimens of goldwork
c. 2000 BCE
Six specimens of goldsmith's work, said to be from Ur: a bead consisting of ring of six spheres, a round gold bead, a pointed end piece with a flat back and ridges, a linear group of six spheres which...
mask buttons
No date
Four Etruscan-style masks made into buttons, in two designs (2 of each). Three pieces have shanks with an attached gold ring, this is missing from the fourth.
gold beater's hammer
c. 2000 BCE
A small gold beater's hammer for 'fine work', said to be from Ur of the Chaldees.
2 cylinder seals
c. 2100-2000 BCE
Two cylinder seals originally attached to white plastic by wire (one now loose). A loose label describes them as "broken cylinder seals". There are pink plaster impressions of each seal. The left-h...
brown paper packaging
c.1940
Original brown paper packaging for three items with a label reading "A picture of the head and headdress of one of the princesses of Ur. A picture of the mother-of-pearl column from El O'Baid, etc. Fr...