Description (Modern): 25 beads with alternating lapis and agate, beginning and ending with lapis. The 13 lapis are all balls/ovals of various sizes. The 12 agate are all barrel shaped.There is also one broken fragment of an agate bead, which doesn't belong to the agate bead n1     
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 83-7-1.80     
Measurement (Length): 381     
Measurement (Weight): 27.6     
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.     
[1] Description from Aubrey Baadsguaard and Keeper of Near East Section.

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