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)
8647 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis lentoids, and one or two carnelian rings.
8653 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 10 gold, 10 silver, and 3 carnelian. Found in a group apparently preserving the order in which they were sewn, as bead embroidery, onto a garment: the small silver beads which completed the design were too decayed to be kept. See field notes. see drawing.
8659 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small balls of carnelian and gold Strung alternately 10 of each
8667 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, carnelian, 1 chalcedony, 1 silver disk bead (broken) and two or three gold plated beads in bad condition. See field notes.
8669 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 2 large carnelian, 2 ditto lapis, and some copper beads. See field notes.
8670 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Crystal, gold plated, lapis and carnelian, and one agate with gold caps. See field notes.
8686 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot of lapis, carnelian, steatite, sard, etc. from a single string.
8687 (none) (none) B16961 Beads. Large lentoids. 2 lapis, 1 gold, 1 carnelian, and a broken carnelian lentoid: with these small carnelian rings strung between the large.
8689A (none) (none) B16956 Gold beads. Double conoids. Originally strung with the lapis beads U.8689B. 36 in all.
8689B (none) (none) B16956 Beads. Lapis lazuli. Double conoids. Strung with the gold beads U.8689A.
8715 (none) (none) B17031 Pendant. Rock crystal. Translucent. Rectangular in section. One side slightly covex. Blackened by fire.
8716 (none) (none) B17031 12 lapis lazuli beads Double conoids, ring beads, and one thus [drawing] and 1 discoid bead
8719 (none) (none) (none) 4 carnelian beads Flattened double conoids
8723 (none) (none) (none) 5 beads. 1 silver lentoid. 2 facetted double conoid lapis. 1 double conoid baked clay. 1 bugle bead baked clay.
8735A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 lapis beads. Double conoid. Facetted. [Apparently unrelated notes on back, U. numbers associated with PG.286]
8738 (none) (none) B16849 Conical bead. Lapis lazuli. Perforated vertically and horizontally in 4 places. 3 triangles engraved upon it - in each triangle 3 lines parallel to the base. [drawing]
8753 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis and silver.
8781A (none) (none) (none) 3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis.
8781B (none) (none) (none) 3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis.
8781C (none) (none) (none) 3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis.
8850 (none) (none) (none) Copper sun flower. Part missing. [drawing 1:1]
8904 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis and carnelian with lapis phallic amulet. [drawing 1:1]
8919 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A string of moderately large beads, balls of gold foil over copper (in bad condition) and lapis, with a few carnelian, one of the latter a bugle with gold cap.
8921 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small silver and carnelian beads, (NB: Some of these are mixed up with U.8920)
8927 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small silver balls, silver disks, and small lapis balls. See field notes.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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British Museum Semantic Web Collection Online