83-7-1.16
Description (Modern): | 43 gold beads. Begins and ends with a small gold ball. There are 11 braided gold beads separated by groups of three small gold beads. Sometimes the group of three is all gold balls, and sometimes a small biconical bead is mixed into that group.1 |
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 83-7-1.16 |
Measurement (Length): | 369 |
Measurement (Weight): | 25.6 |
Notes: | When Woolley excavated the beads, he strung them according to how they were in the ground. Legrain later strung them as necklaces and gave them B numbers. Maude restrung them back into strings in 1983 resulting in the date number. Records recording these changes do not exist at this point. |
[1] Description from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section. |