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)
799 (none) (none) (none) Beads. of (crossed out word) carnelian and amethyst, with lunar pendant of agate. Restrung approximately in original order. Carnelian, 58; amethyst, 17; 1 pebble; 1 lapis paste; 1 agate pendant.
800 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian 12; amethyst 11; crystal 1; restrung approximately in the original order. Bracelet.
803 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Cylinder-shaped and bugle, the cylinder with incised criss-cross patterns: all originally of blue glaze now decayed and blanched, on frit.
804 (none) (none) (none) Strip of leaf gold. Pierced with 2 holes at each end, by the corners, and 2 holes close together by either edge, at the middle. Probably for sewing on to a leather belt.
826A (none) (none) (none) [A-M] Shell rings (13). Found with the stone pots, etc.
827 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 9 bugle-beads of white shell, much decayed; the longest is 7mm long. A few shell disk beads of the usual small type. A quantity of small shells, whole, but pierced for threading. One mother-o'-pearl spacer, flat, thus [drawing 1:1] Half-a-dozen small carnelian ring beads. Found with stonerams
905 (none) (none) (none) Beads string of made up from odd beads collected in the course of the dig. 35 in all: crystal, lapis, pebble, amethyst and carnelian.
907A (none) (none) B15267 Beads, (A) string of made up from odd beads collected in the course of the dig. 48 carnelian and agate (B) 23 mixed large stone beads.
907B (none) (none) (none) Beads, (A) string of made up from odd beads collected in the course of the dig. 48 carnelian and agate (B) 23 mixed large stone beads.
1141 (none) (none) (none) Pebble head of snake. Green pebble. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1161 (none) (none) (none) Stone Pendant. Red polished stone, roughly conical, pierced for suspension (possibly an amulet?) [drawing 1:1]
1221 (none) (none) (none) Crumpled fragment of gold foil.
1263 (none) (none) (none) Barrel-shaped bead of baked clay, pierced lengthwise, and inscribed with 11 lines of a text (partly obliterated) relating to the dues of a temple for a 2 months of the year.
1270 (none) (none) B15724 Clay monkey. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. P. [drawing 1:1]
1271 (none) (none) (none) Clay tortoise. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. Under side plain. [drawing 1:1]
1272 (none) (none) B15720 Clay Frog. Light drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (small) P. [drawing]
1273 (none) (none) (none) Frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1274 (none) (none) B15719 Clay Frog. Light drab clay. With traces of green pigment (glaze?) pierced for suspension. Like U.1273. P.
1277 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. (head missing) [drawing 1:1]
1279 (none) (none) B15721 Clay duck. Like U.1278. P.
1280 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Light. Clay. Pierced vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1281 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Like U.1280
1282 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Like U.1280
1283 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. (head missing) Like U.1280.
1285 (none) (none) B15591 Stone amulet. (?) Black stone, polished. Conventionalized representation of two heads (possibly rams?) and bodied, shoulder to shoulder, the bodies adorned with incised lines - the back plain. (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1]

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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British Museum Semantic Web Collection Online