10977E | 83-7-1.41
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. |
Files
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Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:47 Page:218 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:47 Page:218 | (none) |
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