8349http://www165.123.244.137/subject/8349/MuseumBritish MuseumObject TypeNecklacesSeason Number05: 1926-1927MaterialCarnelianMaterialLapis LazuliU Number8761Description (Catalog Card)Necklace. 12 burnt lentoids, Lapis beads. 6 burnt double conoid lapis. 7 ribbed lapis ball beads. 7 double conoid carnelians. 1 carnelian shaped thus: [drawing]. The rest small carnelian and lapis ring ball and barrel beads - 25. Grand total 58. The lapis lentoids and carnelian double conoids were strung alternately in the middle of the necklace - at the back of the neck all the small lapis beads were strung together.Woolley's descriptionDescription (Modern)String of Beads; 53 BeadsAubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).Find Context (Catalog Card)PG 428 TTFMaterial (Catalog Card)Lapis lazuliMaterial as described by WoolleyMaterial (Catalog Card)CarnelianMaterial as described by WoolleyMuseum Number (BM Big Number)120608Museum Number (BM Registration Number)1928,1009.91Data collected by British Museum research team.Measurement (Weight)26.80Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).Measurement (X)455.00Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).