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)
10350 (none) (none) (none) 13 Gold (Mulberry?) Leaves Strung with lapis bugles and carnelian rings in the usual manner
10329 (none) (none) (none) 13 Gold (Mulberry?) leaves Strung with lapis bugles and carnelian rings. Each leaf has a gold tang bent double thus forming two tubes for two strings of beads. Against the leaf on either side a small carnelian ring bead, then 2 lapis bugles, carnelian ring, leaf, etc.
7588 (none) (none) (none) 14 beads. Yellow paste ring beads and one lapis ball bead.
6615A (none) (none) (none) 14 paste beads.
10712 (none) (none) (none) 15 Discoid Beads Glazed (originally blue?) frit beads & black steatite? Probably buttons of Field Notes [drawing]
14953 (none) 1930,1213.109 (none) 16 beads. Various. Collected from one stratum.
8446A (none) (none) B16803 178 beads Lapis double conoids, barrel beads and bugle beads Carnelian barrel beads 4 minute gold beads Originally these formed [A-C] 3 necklaces apparently worn round the neck one above the other. The bottom necklace consisted of the larger lapis beads, the necklace above of smaller lapis. The top string of lapis, carnelian and gold. Gold and carnelian were always next to one another, and between each gold and carnelian apparently 2 lapis.
10161 (none) (none) (none) 2 Beads Fluted gold ball on a copper core Rounded double conoid carnelian
8295 (none) (none) (none) 2 beads. 1 double conoid lapis lazuli. 1 double conoid silver.
15370 31-17-82 (none) (none) 2 beads. Green stone, ? jade. 1 - is roughly chipped to a ring. The 2nd is a fat polished ring.
14066 (none) (none) (none) 2 beads: large double conoids. Dark stone. Possibly burnt lapis.
14339 (none) (none) (none) 2 calcite beads. Section: [drawing 1:1]
8110B (none) 1928,1009.110 (none) 2 lapis lazuli beads. Large double conoids, facetted. [drawing 1:1] A & B
14086 31-17-83 (none) (none) 2 lapis lazuli beads: facetted double conoids.
14321 (none) (none) (none) 2 lentoid beads. Lapis lazuli.
9704A (none) (none) (none) 2 Strings of beads. (a) Long double conoid lapis beads; 1 carnelian ditto; 1 chrysoprase? [not legible] ditto; 4 tubular agate beads; silver ball beads. (for order of stringing see Field Note) (b) 12 gold tubular beads; 8 gold diamonds; 7 carnelian diamonds; 1 banded crystal tube; 9 lapis tubes; 4 carnelian tubes; decayed silver diamonds and double conoids. (for order see Field Notes)
9704B (none) (none) (none) 2 Strings of beads. (a) Long double conoid lapis beads; 1 carnelian ditto; 1 chrysoprase? [not legible] ditto; 4 tubular agate beads; silver ball beads. (for order of stringing see Field Note) (b) 12 gold tubular beads; 8 gold diamonds; 7 carnelian diamonds; 1 banded crystal tube; 9 lapis tubes; 4 carnelian tubes; decayed silver diamonds and double conoids. (for order see Field Notes)
9590 (none) (none) B17584 3 Beads 1 broken carnelian lentoid 1 silver double conoid 1 copper double conoid Lentoid carnelian in middle
10532 (none) (none) B16784 3 Beads 2 Lapis double conoids 1 carnelian lentoid carnelian between the 2 lapis
10171 (none) (none) (none) 3 Beads Glazed double conoids Strung round neck All broken. Majority had perished
10189 (none) 1928,1010.681 (none) 3 Beads One steatite lentoid; 2 carnelian barrels
9889 (none) (none) (none) 3 Beads Two carnelian ring beads, 1 lapis lentoid
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.
8781A (none) (none) (none) 3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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