Ribbons

Ribbons are strips of precious metals worn in coils around the head. They are distinguished from fillets because of the multiple wraps around the head, and they do not usually cross the forehead. Sometimes they are found coiled alongside the body rather than around the head.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	1928,1010.82	(none)	(none)
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16787	(none)
(none)	30-12-551B	(none)	(none)	(none)
10343	(none)	1928,1010.166	(none)	5 or 6 Gold Ribbons Worn round head Normal type
10337	(none)	(none)	(none)	5 or 6? Gold Ribbons In poor condition. Badly broken up.
10348	(none)	(none)	(none)	6 Gold Ribbons Worn round head Normal type
17917O	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) 3 twisted gold hair-ribbons [A, I and O]. (B) 2 gold frontlets [B and P]. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, lunated ends [C and Q]. (D) Tubular gold 4 spiral finger ring. (E) Necklace of gold flat diamonds, gold double conoids, carnelian lentoids, bugles and barrels and diamonds, agate barrels. (F) Necklace of gold balls, agate barrels, flat lentoid agate, carnelian bugles, etc. (G) 4 silver bracelets [G and R-T]. (H) Remains of 2 copper bases, from above grave. [H and U] [J-N are metal vessels with drawings but no descriptive text][drawing]
17917I	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) 3 twisted gold hair-ribbons [A, I and O]. (B) 2 gold frontlets [B and P]. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, lunated ends [C and Q]. (D) Tubular gold 4 spiral finger ring. (E) Necklace of gold flat diamonds, gold double conoids, carnelian lentoids, bugles and barrels and diamonds, agate barrels. (F) Necklace of gold balls, agate barrels, flat lentoid agate, carnelian bugles, etc. (G) 4 silver bracelets [G and R-T]. (H) Remains of 2 copper bases, from above grave. [H and U] [J-N are metal vessels with drawings but no descriptive text][drawing]
17930A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) Fragments of twisted hair ribbon. (B) One gold spirally coiled hair ring, hollow lunated ends. (C) Strings of beads on copper wire, alternate steatite and shell painted with gold, terminating in boss of steatite inlaid with shell panels alternately painted yellow. (D) Necklace of gold diamonds, gold ribbed balls, flat lentoid agates, barrel, carnelians, diamond carnelians, and lentoid steatite, etc. Carnelian balls. (E) Copper bowl.
17915A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (B) Tubular gold spiral finger ring. (C) Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, hollowed lunate ends [C and E]. (D) Necklace of alternating gold and carnelian barrel beads.
17917A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Burial group. (A) [A, I and O] 3 twisted gold hair-ribbons. (B) [B and P] 2 gold frontlets. (C) [C and Q] Pair of gold hair-rings, spirally coiled, lunated ends. (D) Tubular gold 4-spiral finger ring. (E) Necklace of gold flat diamonds, gold double conoids, carnelian lentoids, bugles and barrels and diamonds, agate barrels. (F) Necklace of gold balls, agate barrels, flat lentoid agate, carnelian bugles, etc. (G) [G and R-T] 4 silver bracelets. (H) [H and U] Remains of 2 copper bases, from above grave. [J-N are metal vessels with drawings but no descriptive text][drawing]
11735	(none)	1929,1017.51	(none)	Gold Diadem. Plain strip of rather heavy metal with a hole at each end.
18891C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold object: (A) Gold finger ring, a double hoop bending over the edges of a flat metal strip. section: [drawing] (B) [B and E] Pair of gold earrings, small lunate type. (C) Fragments of narrow gold ribbon spirally twisted. (D) A few small beads of carnelian (date-shaped) and balls of paste partly plated with thin gold leaf.
9988	(none)	1928,1010.294	(none)	Gold Ribbon For a headdress. Part only: the rest mixed with PG 806.
9978	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Ribbon Forming the headdress see Field Notes
10095	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Ribbon From the head-dress
9994	(none)	1928,1010.92	(none)	Gold Ribbon From the headdress
12628	30-12-596	(none)	(none)	Gold ribbon fragment. Of type used as binding for women's hair in the shaft graves.
14472A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold ribbon headdress. 5 or 6 strips of thin gold ribbon intertwined round head.
8612	(none)	(none)	B16775	Gold ribbon. A mass of very thin gold ribbon, wide: originally a single length, now broken into a number of pieces. See field notes.
12634	(none)	1929,1017.52	(none)	Gold ribbon. Gold ribbon. Worn across forehead and coiled to contain intertwined coils. Ends rounded off and perforated. Broken in 3 pieces.
12042	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold ribbon. Hair-net. Narrow ribbon: 5 strands meeting over the forehead & going round the head.
11905	30-12-757	(none)	(none)	Gold Ribbon. On the head of the central person in the domed building.
11992	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold ribbon. Thin & narrow. A spiral twist, from a lock over the forehead.