Description (Archival): Neckalce. Lapis, Gold Carnelian1     
Description (Modern): 23 gold and lapis beads, starting and ending with lapis. The 12 lapis beads are squat biconical, and the 11 gold beads are all long, flattened lozenges. Their appearance suggests that they were always a flattened shape.2     
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B17052     
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 83-7-1.5     
Measurement (Length): 404     
Measurement (Weight): 25.6     
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.

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