Description (Archival): Necklace. Five Strings of Gold and Lapis1     
Description (Modern): 45 alternating gold and lapis beads. The strand begins and ends with a gold squat biconical bead. 23 gold squat biconical lapis alternate with 22 barrel-biconical lapis beads.2     
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B17289a     
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 83-7-1.29     
Measurement (Length): 388     
Measurement (Weight): 22     
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. B and date are just guesses     
[1] Description according to CBS Register.
[2] Description from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section.

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