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)
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.
20041A 35-1-25 (none) (none) Beads. [A] A large collection, mostly carnelian but also other stones[?], of various forms together with a [B] steatite pendant thus [drawing] and a [C] paste scarab inscribed thus [drawing] [D] and a copper fibula (broken) thus [drawing] . Said to have been found with nos 20042-7.
18266A (none) (none) (none) Beads. (A) 3 triple-bored square spacers of glazed frit, a quantity of minute rings and tubes of blue paste, tubes of white paste and pink limestone; then probably all going together. Also: (B) A mixed string of shell tubes, cylinders and date shaped: glazed frit lozenges, glass paste date-shaped: glaze nasturtium seed, discoids, glass balls, paste double conoids, glass cylinders and paste rings and 1 carnelian cylinder. Found in disorder.
11468A (none) 1929,1017.321 (none) Beads. (A) A string of lapis and carnelian bugles & double conoids with a few of silver decayed, and a lapis cylinder with criss-cross pattern. (B) Small rings of paste & lapis with a lapis frog amulet.
19247 (none) 1935,0112.80 (none) Beads. 1 shell tube, and 2 oval shell frontlets; diamond beads of lapis, mother-of-pearl, paste and limestone, paste balls, small shell rings, quartzite rhomboid and square paste spacers.
13546 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 17 in number: for order see Field note. Agate, lapis and carnelian. Double conoids, barrels and 1 bugle.
14943 (none) 1930,1213.108 (none) Beads. 24 in all, glazed. Various. Collected from the stratum.
16637 31-43-135 (none) (none) Beads. 3 agate lentoids, 40 carnelian ring beads. Minute.
18901 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 3 large crystal flattened date-shaped; 1 limestone ditto; 1 agate barrel; 3 steatite rings.
14231 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 4 glazed double conoids; 1 carnelian cylindrical; 1 carnelian double conoid.
15108 (none) 1930,1213.114 (none) Beads. 4 long shell elliptical beads; slightly concave on one side, slightly convex on the other.
16683 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 9 carnelian - double conoids and balls, rings.
18207C 32-40-258 (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot, largely paste. The bulk was said to be ? and have yellow, blue, and white with and double crescents glass paste nimp, dark reg: with men same tune beads which may not-belong to the main set.
15193 (none) 1930,1213.96 (none) Beads. Amethyst, carnelian and glzed frit. Faceted lentoids, 4-faced - lonzenge shaped in section, and hexagonal amethyst lentoids. Carnelian rings and balls, convex on either side and elliptical in section.
19249 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Balls of frit, originally blue-glzed, now mostly bleached, a few carnelian and one steatite rings.
19236 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian ball, date-shaped and cylindrical, lapis facetted date-shaped and date-shaped, shell square, shell double conoids.
19094 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian balls and lapis double conoids.
19251 35-1-94 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian cylinders, quartzite cylinders, lapis cylinders, balls and ovals.
19237 (none) 1935,0112.84 (none) Beads. Carnelian cylinders, shell cylinders and lapis rings.
14215 (none) (none) B8951 Beads. Carnelian cylindrical; lapis barrels.
19185 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian date-shaped (short): lapis date-shaeped, double conoid and one flattened cylinder.
19255 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and a few lapis beads, small balls and flattened ovals.
19127 35-1-73 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and balls and very small glaze balls and tubes.
19182 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and balls; lapis double conoids, ovals and tubes; lapis diamond (large) and one large carnelian.
19203 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and one flattened rectangular, small tubes, ovals and date-shaped. These were strung together in groups, about 8 of each together.

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