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)
8165 87-28-16 (none) (none) Finger ring. Silver. Filigree work, 6 strands of fine silver wire welded together in the hoop. Also, part of a second similar.
8168 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small lapis and gold: found together and forming one string.
8172 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 7 carnelian, 6 lapis, and gold (4). The gold are seed-pods thus [drawing 1:1]. The carnelian similar but with no central rib, the lapis flat and rectangular and 2 bugles (this last may not belong to this string) : for order of threading see field notes. Found affixed to U.8171. The gold beads have a wooden tube down the middle, 2 leaves of gold being soldered (or cemented) together on either side of this: the string went through the wood.
8177A (none) (none) (none) Beads. A: Carnelian lentoids. B: Small lapis balls with the carnelians is one longer with artificial white bands. For stringing see field notes.
8178 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Three, two of lapis, one of gold. Faceted lentoids of exaggerated size. Found together. [drawing] 1:1
8193 (none) (none) B17030 Shell rings A number used as beads [31 under this number in UPM]
8194 (none) (none) B17038 Small shells. Pierced and used as beads. [12 under this number in UPM]
8201 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis and silver with a few carnelian and some small glazed frit rings.
8210 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large balls of lapis. See field notes: almost certainly strung together with no silver beads between. They seem to be connected with the silver flower ornament (U.8212) and perhaps formed a chaplet round the head from which the flowers rose.
8211 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A large number of lapis and carnelian beads, now all mixed together, but originally forming a number of separate strings for which see field notes.
8224.1 (none) (none) B16809 [.1-.2] Beads. Lapis and carnelian, mixed small types, ball, lentoid and bugle, and a few ribbed ball beads of gold.
8229 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Gold double conoids; lapis and carnelian (lapis double conoids, carnelian mostly rings and 1 big faceted lapis lentoid).
8250 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mixed lapis and shell, 29 in all, 28 found together in a basket, 1 biggish lapis ribbed ball formed apart and possibly belonging to the copper pin U.8248.
8266 (none) (none) (none) 3 beads. 2 carnelian double conoids. 1 _.
8267 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 49 in all - double conoid lapis and carnelian, 1 small silver ball bead, and a number of minute carnelian ring beads. Also 2 gold double conoids.
8269 (none) (none) B16685 Bull pendant. Gold. Reclining bull. Body in profile - bearded head turned to the left originally there were 4 small gold beads tied to right side of body for attachment to a chain; only two of these now remain.
8270 (none) (none) (none) Leaf pendant. Gold. Very slightly concave. Slight rib down middle. Thin handle at top folded over and rolled so as to form three loops for attachment to a chain. [drawing] 1:1
8271 (none) (none) (none) Gold beads. 27 in number. Double conoids, bugle beads, minute ring beads and a minute gold spacer rectangular in section perforated 4 times and broken at one end.
8274B (none) (none) B16825 [A-B] Necklace. About 250 beads, mostly small. 1 large faceted lapis lazuli. 18 double conoid lapis. 14 lentoid lapis. 18 bugle and double conoid carnelian. 4 or 5 minute gold beads. The rest small carnelian ring beads and lapis ring and ball beads, a few ribbed barrel lapis beads. Fragment of lapis inlay with incised concentric areas [drawing]. Arbitrarily made up into two strings .
8295 (none) (none) (none) 2 beads. 1 double conoid lapis lazuli. 1 double conoid silver.
8310 (none) (none) (none) Beads. One carnelian, a few lapis, and a number of very small shell rings.
8334 (none) (none) (none) Stone amulet of red pebble with white markings. Crescent shaped. Flat with rounded edges: pierced for suspension by 2 holes from the tops of the crescent meeting in the middle. [drawing 1:1]
8335 (none) (none) B16764 Pendant of blue paste (imitation lapis) a flat dish with slight protuberances. Where the 2 holes come. [drawing] 1:1
8364 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A small set of mixed carnelian and lapis lazuli, all found together at the neck: see field notes.
8374 (none) (none) (none) Silver pendant. In bad condition. It was suspended on the quadrupal band of silver and lapis beads described on field notes (No. 14). Made of twisted filigree wire wound up into spiral whorls standing in high relief. [drawing] 1:1 (sketch)

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