43683http://www165.123.244.137/subject/43683/U Number10978IDescription (Catalog Card)Beads. String of gold and lapis balls alternating.Description (Archival)Necklace. Three strings of Carnelian long with conoids betweenDescription according to CBS Register.Description (Modern)30 gold, carnelian and agate beads with no real pattern, and including two pendants that, in a "cloak" would have stood out perpendicular to the strand. The strand begins and ends with a small carnelian ring. The 20 carnelian beads are pendants, squat biconicals, barrel biconicals, flattened lozenges, and barrels. The 8 gold beads are almost all flattened [one isn't] and round and rectangle in shape. There is one agate barrel bead, slightly rounded. CBS17295 is written on this object.Description from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section. Museum Number (UPM B-number)B17287cMuseum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)83-7-1.47Measurement (Length)385Measurement (Weight)29.4NotesWhen Woolley excavated the beads, he strung them according to how they were in the ground. Legrain later strung them as necklaces and gave them B numbers. Maude restrung them back into strings in 1983 resulting in the date number. Records recording these changes do not exist at this point. B and Date According to EMU