Description (Catalog Card): Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054 C3     
Material (Catalog Card): lapis lazuli4     
Material (Catalog Card): Carnelian4     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold4     
U Number: 11743K     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads      
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Culture/Period: Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIB      
Description (Modern): String of 67, double-cone shaped, lapis lazuli beads.1     
Description (Modern): String of Beads; 66 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      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 122462     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1929,1017.274     
Measurement (Length): 3955     
Measurement (Diameter): 56     
Measurement (Length): 397.002     
Measurement (Weight): 13.502     
[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
[5] Length of strung beads
[6] Average bead

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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:98 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:98 (none)
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