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): Gold4     
U Number: 11743Q     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Description (Modern): String of lapis and gold beads possibly a necklace. The 80 beads measure 472mm all together. The 35 Lapis ovoid beads measure 1-4x1-2x1-2mm. The 22 Lapis Cylinder beads measure 4-8mmx2x2mm. The 7 Lapis Double Conoid beads measure 4x3x3. The 13 Lapis flattened ovoid beads measure 4x3x1. The 2 gold double conoid beads measure 6x3x3. The 1 gold ovoid measures 2x3x3. 1     
Description (Modern): They are strung in this order. 4 lapis ovoid. 5 lapis cylinder. 3 lapis ovoid. 3 lapis cylinder. 3 lapis ovoid. 3 lapis cylinder. 3 lapis ovoid. 1 lapis cylinder. 2 lapis double conoid. 6 lapis flattened ovoid. 1 lapis double conoid. 3 lapis ovoid. 1 gold double conoid. 1 lapis double conoid. 1 gold ovoid. 1 lapis double conoid. 1 gold double conoid. 3 lapis ovoid. 1 lapis double conoid. 7 lapis flattened ovoid. 1 lapis double conoid. 1 lapis cylinder. 3 lapis ovoid. 3 lapis cylinder. 3 lapis ovoid. 3 lapis cylinders. 4 lapis ovoids. 3 lapis cylinder. 6 lapis ovoid. 1     
Description (Modern): String of Beads; 80 Beads2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 30-12-641     
Measurement (Weight): 13.902     
Measurement (X): 576.002     
[1] modern
[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

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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)
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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