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)
15369O (none) 1930,1213.124 (none) Beads. Rings of white shell, a great quantity found forming 4 strings round the neck
15369L (none) 1930,1213.125 (none) Beads. Rings of white shell, a great quantity found forming 4 strings round the neck
15369M (none) 1930,1213.126 (none) Beads. Rings of white shell, a great quantity found forming 4 strings round the neck
15369N (none) 1930,1213.127 (none) Beads. Rings of white shell, a great quantity found forming 4 strings round the neck
14965 31-17-100 (none) (none) Beads. Small ring beads of white shell.
13745 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small white shell rings. Strung in 2 loops kept together by a little rectangular black steatite spacer. Probably a bracelet. Found on the floor of the room, in order.
19184 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Two long carnelian tubes and 13 carnelian date-shaped, and 4 lapis ditto.
14904 31-17-142 (none) (none) Beads. Various types. Collected from the same level. Not in catalog.
19248 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very long shells, four tubes and one oval frontlet pierced at each end.
19254 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very small paste rings and oblong spacers for 3 ranks of beads (see field notes).
15368 31-17-72 (none) (none) Beads. Very small white shell rings. Found on the arm.
14973 31-17-71 (none) (none) Beads. Very small white shell rings. Found with the body in early grave below kilns.
11204 (none) (none) (none) Beads. (7). Large lapis double conoid; oolite? barrel bead; 2 gold ring beads; 2 carnelian ball beads; 1 rock crystal double conoid.
11211 (none) (none) B17599 Beads. (7). 1 Flattened steatite double conoid-grey. 1 carnelian double conoid. 1 black steatite bead with incised markings; shaped like a truncated cone. 2 carnelian ring beads. 1 gold ring bead. 1 grey steatite bead square in section - tubular. [drawing 1:1]
17417 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 amethyst facetted. 1 marble lentoid. 1 carnelian double conoid. 1 steatite lentoid. 1 frit lentoid. 2 glass paste flattened tubular beads, lozenge shaped in section.
17798 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 bugle carnelian. 1 bleached carnelian. 2 lentoid carnelian. 2 ball carnelian. 2 flat lentoid crystal. A necklace composed of 9 diamond carnelian, 11 lentoid carnelian, 14 gold lentoid.
16324 (none) 1931,1010.249 (none) Beads. 1 carnelian ball; 2-chalcedony lentoids; 1 hemispherical section lapis lazuli.
8954 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 carnelian bugle, and a set of mixed small beads: lapis, carnelian, & silver.
17411 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 carnelian ring bead. 1 Carnelian double conoid. 1 elongated sard (?) double conoid.
17783 (none) 1932,1008.141 (none) Beads. 1 gold facetted lentoid. 13 lentoid carnelian. 3 balls carnelian. 1 turquoise pendant. 1 flat barrel steatite. 1 ring steatite. 1 flat lentoid paste.
12259 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 large twisted gold wire bead double conoid. 2 Lapis lentoids, facetted. 2 Carnelian ring beads.
18115 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 malachite cylinder, 2 white calcite rhomboids, 1 cylinder seal, grey steatite, much defaced, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and traces of 2 columns of inscription: cylinders of shell, steatite, pine limestone, some originally with figures but all defaced, eliptical beads of white calcite, agate, biconvex rectangles, square section tubular red limestone, black stone discoid, carnelian date-shaped, glass ball, and one limestone disk with crudely incised design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing]
17357 31-43-142 (none) (none) Beads. 1 Mother of pearl (?) ball. Glass paste bugles and double conoids. Carnelian double conoids, ring beads. 1 steatite double conoid. 1 pale lapis lazuli (?) bugle.
11844 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1, very long carnelian bugle; a few smaller beads, carnelian, lapis & silver. (see Field Notes).
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.

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