Description (Modern): 29 alternating lapis and carnelian beads, beginning and ending with carnelian rings. In between, there are 14 lapis beads, mainly squat biconical, but also barrels and barrel-biconicals. The 13 middle carnelian beads are all squat biconical beads.1     
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 83-7-1.49     
Measurement (Length): 392     
Measurement (Weight): 44.3     
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 from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section.

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