Description (Archival): Necklace. Five Strings of Gold and Lapis1     
Description (Modern): 49 gold and lapis beads. Begins and ends with a small gold beadl. There are 9 braided gold beads separated by groups of three small gold beads with a small lapis bead on eachend of that grouping. The last grouping is one gold bead flanked by two lapis ba2     
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B17060a     
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 83-7-1.34     
Measurement (Length): 371     
Measurement (Weight): 21.8     
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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