Description (Catalog Card): Beads. String of gold and lapis balls alternating.     
Description (Archival): Necklace. Five Strings of Gold and Lapis1     
U Number: 10978A     
Description (Modern): 50 alternating lapis and gold beads, beginning and ending with lapis. The 26 lapis beads are squat biconcial beads and alternate one to one with the gold, but for one place that has two lapis in a row. The 24 gold beads are mainly barrel-biconical of var2     
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B17057a     
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 83-7-1.50     
Measurement (Length): 368     
Measurement (Weight): 18.8     
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 are just guesses     
[1] Description according to CBS Register.
[2] Description from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section.

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