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)
14259A 31-16-548 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 claw-shaped horn strips. Perforated for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
14261 31-17-372 (none) (none) Cowrie shell.
14262 (none) (none) (none) 5 beads: 3 sard cylindricals; 1 double conoid; 1 calcite(?) barrel.
14271 31-17-59 (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli barrels and a triangular calcite pendant.
14288 (none) (none) (none) Beads: lapis lazuli and silver double conoids.
14303 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli double conoids. Lapis lazuli fly amulet. [drawing]
14306 (none) (none) (none) Beads: 9 lapis lazuli lentoids-facated; 5 carnelian ring beads.
14316 (none) (none) (none) 3 lentoid beads; 2 faceted lapis lazuli; 1 faceted gold.
14321 (none) (none) (none) 2 lentoid beads. Lapis lazuli.
14336 (none) (none) (none) 12 beads: lapis lazuli double conoids.
14339 (none) (none) (none) 2 calcite beads. Section: [drawing 1:1]
14406 31-17-66 (none) (none) Beads. Quantity of lapis double conoids.
14407 31-17-86 (none) (none) Figurine (amulet?) of a bull, white stone. Carved in the round: the eyes originally inlaid and in one is preserved the ring of white shell. Pierced behind the shoulder for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
14423A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glazed rings?
14426A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glazed balls.
14429A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian ring beads. Red jasper double conoids. Quartzite cylindrical. Steatite? Discoid, flat one side, convex on the other . Agate lentoid and pendant shapes thus. [drawing]
14430A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small glazed rings.
14433A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Necklace. Agate and carnelian lentoids. Carnelian bulbs.
14444A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small mottled stone beads - black and white. 1 lapis bound bead. 1 baked clay ring bead.
14446 (none) (none) (none) Rosette. Black steatite. With shell centre. Worked on both side: the face convex. [drawing 1:1]
14471 31-17-102 (none) (none) Beads. 12 various. Not in catalog.
14477A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Gold and carnelian double conoids.
14478A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Gold and carnelian bugles. Gold cylindrical with ringed surface.
14479A 31-17-25 (none) (none) Necklaces [A-L]. Lapis lazuli and carnelian double conoids and gold beads. Lapis & gold fluted balls. Smaller beads were from cloak.
14480B (none) (none) (none) [B-F] Beads (5) clay. Imitation of those cut from shell cores with the spiral shewn. (NB, these seem to have been made on a string, not made & then pierced).

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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