U Number : 500C
Museum Number (BM Registration Number) : 1923,1110.176
Description (Catalog Card) : A quantity of beads in different varieties of stone and of different shapes, all found together and in confusion (see notes) with U.456 and other metal objects now restrung and composed into the following strins:- (1260 beads in all) -
(A) 44 carnelian beads [drawing], 10 malachite beads, ball or scaraboid, and plain machite cylinder.
(B) 36 beads, lentoids of banded agate, banded agate discoids, and small cat's eyes.
(C) 60 carnelian [drawing], 8 banded agate lentoids, 4 large ovoids, flat, of chalcedony, amethystine quartz and agate.
(D) 90 carnelian spheroids, 12 banded agate lentoids, discoids and lentoids of amethystine quartz and malachite, large, 6 in all.
(E) 24 carnelian bugles or barrels, 30 carnelian [drawing], 2 ditto discoids, flat, 2 oblong agate plaques, and U.499 strung on as centerpiece.
(F) 72 carnelian speroids and two double cat's eyes, strung as a double bracelet.
(G) Amethyst, 24 [drawing], and 2 cylinders.
(H) Carnelian: 44 lentoids, 1 bugle with separate caps, 1 bugle with acid whitened pattern and 2 pendants.
(J) Carnelian: 12 scaraboids, 12 lentoids and 48 small spheroids
(K) Bone pendant, jasper cone-topped ovoid, spacers of chalcedony, carnelian, sardonyx, cat's eye, jadeite, lapis and banded agate and paste, 22 in all, 6 carnelian bugles and small carnelians, in all 206.
(L) 38 carnelian spheroids of [drawing], 8 lentoids of banded agate, 1 ditto cylinder, 1 sardonyx cylinder, 8 ovoids flattened of chalcedony and agate and one imitation cat's eye in chalcedony and carnelian.
(M) 108 spacers of carnelian [drawing], 35 agate lentoids, 1 large ball carnelian.
(N) 90 carnelian spacers [drawing] or spheroid, 15 barrel or lentoids of banded agate or sardonyx, 2 agate cone-topped flat ovoids and 1 cat's eye disk
(O) 20 lentoids or barrels of banded agate, 13 ditto ball beads and 2 humped-back ditto.
(P) 67 carnelian beads [drawing] and 66 lapis lazuli beads of varying types.
