This category includdes objects like beads, pendants, and rosettes.  They are all small pieces of necklaces or bracelets that are not strung.  They may have been strung in antiquity, but are now separate and were not re-strung. 

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
8009 (none) (none) B17622 White shell beads. All small, mostly minute: several thousands of them, with one white spacer.
8010 (none) (none) B17667 Beads. Carnelian. Mostly minute ring beads. With them a few small balls etc.
8011A (none) (none) B16811 Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carnelians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017]
8012 (none) (none) B16811 Beads. 15 lapis ball beads of different sizes but all large: some are ribbed. Perhaps strung up with U.8011.
8017 (none) (none) (none) Two gold beads. Elongated double conoids made of thin gold leaf over a core which has split and decayed, leaving the gold in fragments. These beads went with U.8011.
8018A (none) 1928,1009.81, 1928,1009.89 (none) Beads. Carnelian, agate, lapis and gold. [A] One string was of carnelian and gold. [B] One string of lapis and gold. [C] Agate beads were found touching each other end to end, so should form a string.
8033 (none) 1928,1009.396 (none) Shell bull. Very delicately & boldly carved in white shell. A figure of a bull, facing rt, in exactly the position of the 'Ubaid copper frieze bulls, with the left fore leg bent at the knee and planted on the ground as if the animal were about to rise; the body in profile, the head turned to the front.
8040 (none) (none) (none) Beads 3 carnelian and a number of small lapis
8044 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small rings of green glazed frit, A few lapis beads One carnelian One shell
8050 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Of lapis lazuli. 10 large double conoids & two similar of silver (one broken).
8054 (none) (none) B16791 Beads. Mixed carnelian and lapis. With 2 lapis frog amulets.
8070 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli. Small conoids, balls, and a few bugles. 130 in all.
8072 (none) (none) B16806 Amulet of grey slate in form of a bird. [drawing 1:1]
8073 (none) (none) (none) Amulet of mother o'pearl Inlaid with 2 spots of lapis of which one has dropped out. [drawing 1:1]
8083A (none) (none) B16837 [A-B] Two beads Of glazed frit. Originally blue, now bleached. Large striated or ribbed beads, one spherical, the other with a sharp shoulder.
8084 (none) (none) B16793 Beads. Lapis lazuli. Medium-sized double conoids and some balls.
8089A (none) 1928,1009.111 (none) [A-B] Beads. Lapis lazuli (poor quality of stone). Large faceted lentoids. [drawing 1:1]
8097 (none) (none) B16792 Beads. Very long bugles, 1 gold, 2 lapis, 3 carnelian, one of the latter facetted, & 4 small silver & 3 small gold balls. For original order see field notes.
8099 (none) 1928,1009.392 (none) Beads. Large shell rings. About 002 in diameter. In bad condition.
8101 (none) (none) B16812 String of beads. Lapis lazuli. 16 double conoids.
8110A (none) 1928,1009.109 (none) [A-B] 2 lapis lazuli beads. Large double conoids, facetted. [drawing 1:1]
8110B (none) 1928,1009.110 (none) 2 lapis lazuli beads. Large double conoids, facetted. [drawing 1:1] A & B
8117 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Lapis lazuli. Double conoid in section. Broader at one end than at the other. [drawing 1:1]
8130 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. 23 lapis lazuli. Small double conoids, ribbed barrel beads and bugle beads. 3 Carnelian ring beads.
8137 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 90 lapis lazuli beads. Double conoids. Ball beads and a few lentoids.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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