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)
9030 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. About 20. Minute carnelian and lapis ring beads. A carnelian barrel bead - a lapis ball bead.
9109 (none) (none) (none) Beads Silver and lapis, thin lentoids.
9124A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Beads 2 Long facetted conoids. One Lapis, 1- silver over a bitumen core. [drawing] [C] Also, a silver earring [drawing]
9129 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small carnelian rings, long bugles, and lapis beads small mixed.
9142 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Diamond-shaped flat plate beads alternately lapis and gold plate over copper - the latter in bad condition. One string.
9143 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small lentoids of lapis & gold (thin plate over copper), with a few carnelians: strung in sets of 6. See field notes. one strings
9144 (none) (none) (none) Beads very small lapis and gold balls, with them a pendant of artificial cat's eye (hematite(?) & shell) set in copper. [drawing of cat's eye]
9153 (none) (none) (none) Beads & Seal 1 very long carnelian bugle, i ditto. green jasper, 2 crystal rings and 2 gold balls: on the end a silver button seal with engraved face: subject not decipherable. [drawing]
9157 (none) (none) (none) Beads Bone Small rings & balls.
9164 (none) (none) (none) Acorn? of lapis and carnelian [drawing]
9165A (none) (none) (none) Beads Small string of lapis and carnelian, mixed types.
9174A (none) (none) (none) [A] Beads. A few small beads, mostly glaze, and one big glazed firt bugle bead. [B-C] Also, pair of small silver earrings.
9177 (none) (none) (none) [CARD MISSING] Beads. A few - 4 gold, some lapis, and 2 small bugles of red and white banded agate
9211 (none) (none) (none) 3 Facetted Lentoid Beads 2 lapis, 1 gold
9231 (none) (none) (none) String of beads Lapis lozenges, 1 carnelian bugle and copper ball beads.
9238 (none) (none) (none) Frit Beads Minute rim beads; ball beads and a few lenoids
9244 (none) (none) (none) Beads 8 lapis double conoids 3 lapis bugles 2 carnelian bugles 2 banded sard bugles 1 gold double conoid
9279 (none) (none) (none) Beads Lapis and silver, with 1 carnelian. Shape [refers to drawing] [drawing]
9280 (none) (none) (none) Beads Very small lapis and gold balls
9305 (none) (none) (none) Silver head ornament(?) [drawing] 1:1
9309 (none) (none) B17006 Beads Gold, plain and fluted balls, carnelian and lapis balls, a crescent amulet of agate capped with gold, and a long gold bead
9327 (none) (none) B16801 Beads Very small gold beds, small lapis, and silver disks: also, one long bugle of bloodstone. For order see Field Notes.
9351A (none) (none) B16794 Beads. Gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian. Three gold suspenders, 2 consisting of a gold ring attached to a single piece of gold foil which is a spacer for 3 necklaces. The third is a gold ring set with a gold flower pattern consisting of 12 petals represented only in outline. Also, 2 cones of spiral gold wire attached to a gold foil spacer for 2 strings. 3 Pear shaped gold beads pierced vertically. A piece of gold wire passes through the hole. At the top it is rolled over twice to form a spacer for 2 strings and at the bottom end twisted round once to prevent it from slipping. 3 lentoid lapis beads fitted with gold attachments similar to the above, except that one of the ha spacers for 3 instead of 2 strings. Also, 4 carnelians with similar gold attachments one a lentoid, 2 flattened ball beads, and 1 flattened double conoid. 5 gold pears (slender type) perforated at apex: 6 large gold double conoids and 10 small. A gold triangle consisting of 6 rows of minute ball beads, 2 lines of minute gold beads soldered together as above are both spacers, 1 for six the other for seven strings. 2 fluted gold ball beads and 1 fluted pear shaped bead. 8 minute gold ring beads. 26 carnelian lentoids. 5 carnelian bugle beads. 5 carnelian double conoids. 4 or 5 carnelian minute ring & ball beads. 2 lapis leaf shaped beads [drawing] thick in section. 7 lapis large double conoids. 32 lapis small double conoids. 2 ribbed conical lapis beads with a straight piece projecting from the base. 4 pear shaped lapis beads. About 50 smaller lapis beads, ring beads, ball beads, bugle beads, etc.
9351B (none) (none) B16800 Beads. Gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian. Three gold suspenders, 2 consisting of a gold ring attached to a single piece of gold foil which is a spacer for 3 necklaces. The third is a gold ring set with a gold flower pattern consisting of 12 petals represented only in outline. Also, 2 cones of spiral gold wire attached to a gold foil spacer for 2 strings. 3 Pear shaped gold beads pierced vertically. A piece of gold wire passes through the hole. At the top it is rolled over twice to form a spacer for 2 strings and at the bottom end twisted round once to prevent it from slipping. 3 lentoid lapis beads fitted with gold attachments similar to the above, except that one of the ha spacers for 3 instead of 2 strings. Also, 4 carnelians with similar gold attachments one a lentoid, 2 flattened ball beads, and 1 flattened double conoid. 5 gold pears (slender type) perforated at apex: 6 large gold double conoids and 10 small. A gold triangle consisting of 6 rows of minute ball beads, 2 lines of minute gold beads soldered together as above are both spacers, 1 for six the other for seven strings. 2 fluted gold ball beads and 1 fluted pear shaped bead. 8 minute gold ring beads. 26 carnelian lentoids. 5 carnelian bugle beads. 5 carnelian double conoids. 4 or 5 carnelian minute ring & ball beads. 2 lapis leaf shaped beads [drawing] thick in section. 7 lapis large double conoids. 32 lapis small double conoids. 2 ribbed conical lapis beads with a straight piece projecting from the base. 4 pear shaped lapis beads. About 50 smaller lapis beads, ring beads, ball beads, bugle beads, etc.
9351C (none) (none) B16804 Beads. Gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian. Three gold suspenders, 2 consisting of a gold ring attached to a single piece of gold foil which is a spacer for 3 necklaces. The third is a gold ring set with a gold flower pattern consisting of 12 petals represented only in outline. Also, 2 cones of spiral gold wire attached to a gold foil spacer for 2 strings. 3 Pear shaped gold beads pierced vertically. A piece of gold wire passes through the hole. At the top it is rolled over twice to form a spacer for 2 strings and at the bottom end twisted round once to prevent it from slipping. 3 lentoid lapis beads fitted with gold attachments similar to the above, except that one of the ha spacers for 3 instead of 2 strings. Also, 4 carnelians with similar gold attachments one a lentoid, 2 flattened ball beads, and 1 flattened double conoid. 5 gold pears (slender type) perforated at apex: 6 large gold double conoids and 10 small. A gold triangle consisting of 6 rows of minute ball beads, 2 lines of minute gold beads soldered together as above are both spacers, 1 for six the other for seven strings. 2 fluted gold ball beads and 1 fluted pear shaped bead. 8 minute gold ring beads. 26 carnelian lentoids. 5 carnelian bugle beads. 5 carnelian double conoids. 4 or 5 carnelian minute ring & ball beads. 2 lapis leaf shaped beads [drawing] thick in section. 7 lapis large double conoids. 32 lapis small double conoids. 2 ribbed conical lapis beads with a straight piece projecting from the base. 4 pear shaped lapis beads. About 50 smaller lapis beads, ring beads, ball beads, bugle beads, etc.

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