Description (Catalog Card): Beads. Large bugles of agate with lapis balls between.     
Description (Archival): Neckalce. Red and White Agate. Six Strings of graded beads.1     
U Number: 10977E     
Description (Modern): 25 beads with alternating lapis and carnelian/agate, beginning and ending with lapis. The 13 lapis are all squat biconical beads. In between the lapis are alternating barrel/ biconical carnelian and barrel agate2     
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B17048e     
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 83-7-1.41     
Measurement (Length): 388     
Measurement (Weight): 27.1     
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 according to CBS Register.
[2] Description from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section.

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