10978I | 83-7-1.47
Description (Catalog Card): | Beads. String of gold and lapis balls alternating. |
Description (Archival): | Necklace. Three strings of Carnelian long with conoids between1 |
U Number: | 10978I |
Description (Modern): | 30 gold, carnelian and agate beads with no real pattern, and including two pendants that, in a "cloak" would have stood out perpendicular to the strand. The strand begins and ends with a small carnelian ring. The 20 carnelian beads are pendants, squat biconicals, barrel biconicals, flattened lozenges, and barrels. The 8 gold beads are almost all flattened [one isn't] and round and rectangle in shape. There is one agate barrel bead, slightly rounded. CBS17295 is written on this object.2 |
Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B17287c |
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 83-7-1.47 |
Measurement (Length): | 385 |
Measurement (Weight): | 29.4 |
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 According to EMU |
[1] Description according to CBS Register. |
[2] Description from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section. |
Files
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:47 Page:219 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:47 Page:219 | (none) |
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