11744E | 1929,1017.275
| Technique: | Manufacture >> Handmade >> Carved 1 |
| Technique: | Decoration >> Subtraction >> Pierced/Perforated/Bored 1 |
| Technique: | Decoration >> Subtraction >> Polished 1 |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows. |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 1054 C3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lapis lazuli4 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Shell4 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Carnelian4 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Gold4 |
| U Number: | 11744E |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 07: 1928-1929 |
| Culture/Period: | Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIA |
| Description (Modern): | Triple row of 439 very small beads; 83 lapis lazuli, 161 cornelian, 27 gold, and 168 shell beads with lapis lazuli and gold spacer-beads. All stone beads are carved, perforated, and polished.1 |
| Description (Modern): | String of Beads; 444 Beads2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli |
| Material: | Organic Remains >> Shell |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver 2 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1929,1017.275 |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 1224631 |
| Measurement (Length): | 220.002 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 8.202 |
| [1] Data collected by British Museum research team. |
| [2] Aubrey Baadsgaard, Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008). |
| [3] NW Corner |
| [4] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/1054C | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| PG1054 Field Notes | PG1054 Field Notes | 1922-1934 | Woolley et al | (none) | |
| Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia | Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia | 2008 | Baadsgaard, Aubrey | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:99 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:99 | (none) |
- 4 Media