83-7-1.49
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. |