9039http://www165.123.244.137/subject/9039/Object TypeBeadsMuseumUniversity of Pennsylvania MuseumSeason Number05: 1926-1927MaterialCarnelianMaterialGoldMaterialLapis LazuliU Number9351ADescription (Catalog Card)Beads. Gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian. Three gold suspenders, 2 consisting of a gold ring attached to a single piece of gold foil which is a spacer for 3 necklaces. The third is a gold ring set with a gold flower pattern consisting of 12 petals represented only in outline. Also, 2 cones of spiral gold wire attached to a gold foil spacer for 2 strings. 3 Pear shaped gold beads pierced vertically. A piece of gold wire passes through the hole. At the top it is rolled over twice to form a spacer for 2 strings and at the bottom end twisted round once to prevent it from slipping. 3 lentoid lapis beads fitted with gold attachments similar to the above, except that one of the ha spacers for 3 instead of 2 strings. Also, 4 carnelians with similar gold attachments one a lentoid, 2 flattened ball beads, and 1 flattened double conoid. 5 gold pears (slender type) perforated at apex: 6 large gold double conoids and 10 small. A gold triangle consisting of 6 rows of minute ball beads, 2 lines of minute gold beads soldered together as above are both spacers, 1 for six the other for seven strings. 2 fluted gold ball beads and 1 fluted pear shaped bead. 8 minute gold ring beads. 26 carnelian lentoids. 5 carnelian bugle beads. 5 carnelian double conoids. 4 or 5 carnelian minute ring & ball beads. 2 lapis leaf shaped beads [drawing] thick in section. 7 lapis large double conoids. 32 lapis small double conoids. 2 ribbed conical lapis beads with a straight piece projecting from the base. 4 pear shaped lapis beads. About 50 smaller lapis beads, ring beads, ball beads, bugle beads, etc.Woolley's descriptionDescription (Modern)Strings of beads (2) Small lapis, 1 pendant gold and lapis with 4 coiled cones; 2 small gold pendants, 2 in lapis, 4 gold drops.Modern descriptionDescription (Archival)String of Beads; 137 BeadsAubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).Find Context (Catalog Card)PG 580 TTE Material (Catalog Card)Lapis lazuliMaterial as described by WoolleyMaterial (Catalog Card)CarnelianMaterial as described by WoolleyMaterial (Catalog Card)GoldMaterial as described by WoolleyMuseum Number (UPM B-number)B16794Measurement (Weight)13.90Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).Measurement (X)198.00Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).NotesDivided a-k, strung and accessioned as seperate necklaces in the UPm and BM.