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)
14480A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli cylindricals and gold bugles. Carnelian rings from skirt.
14482 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Grey & white marble. Decorated with 2 rows of drill-point holes (the top is broken). [drawing 1:1]
14483 31-17-95 (none) (none) Beads. Eleven various. Including one of black obsidian (?) shape thus: [drawing] Not in Catalog Vol. IV. [drawing]
14485A (none) (none) (none) Beads. Flattened carnelian lentoids. 1 strung.
14494 31-17-87 (none) (none) Amulet of pink pebble. Rudely cut in form of a bird. [drawing 1:1]
14498B 31-17-105 (none) (none) Beads. Small lapis lazuli and carnelian barrels.
14904 31-17-142 (none) (none) Beads. Various types. Collected from the same level. Not in catalog.
14905 31-16-765 (none) (none) Bead. Clay. Imitation of one cut from the core of a shell, with spiral band. Not in catalog.
14928 31-16-764 (none) (none) Bead. Clay. Imitating one of shell core. Not in catalog.
14940 31-17-81 (none) (none) Bead. Globular. Translucent light blue glass(?) (or jadeite?)
14954 31-16-778 (none) (none) Clay object. Uncertain use. Pierced through centre. [drawing 1:1]
14965 31-17-100 (none) (none) Beads. Small ring beads of white shell.
14973 31-17-71 (none) (none) Beads. Very small white shell rings. Found with the body in early grave below kilns.
14983 31-16-512 (none) (none) Long-shanked stud(?) or nail. White obsidian. [drawing 1:1]
15106 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis & carnelian ring beads and a few shell. All minute. Order see Field note.
15145 37-17-64 (none) (none) Beads: 4 carnelian & 1 silver ( on a bitumen core) elongated double conoids.
15172 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glazed barrels, frit. Agate lentoid. Carnelian double conoid. [drawing 1:1]
15175 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Agate, carnelian, chalcedony. Two of the agates shaped thus: varied shapes: three-faced lentoids; cushion-shaped beads; balls, rings, barrels and lozenges. (lunate, heartshaped). [drawing 1:1]
15176 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glazed frit miniature rings. A mass.
15180 (none) (none) (none) Beads: balls, barrels, faceted tubluar beads, 3-sided lentoids, lozenges, lunate. Amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, agate, glazed frit: 1 blue glazed frit eye of Horus. Persian.
15188 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glazed frit lentoids; carnelian lentoids.
15301D (none) (none) (none) Group: (A)[A-E] A pair of small lunate gold earrings; (B) Narrow gold ribbon twisted spirally; (C)[C and F-G] 3 gold finger rings, one made of two hoops of thin gold wire, the other two of sheet metal with the edges bent over inwards to look like 2 solid loops; (D) Beads, lapis, carnelian & agate (sliver beads all decayed) forming 2 strings(?)
15305B (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) [A and D] Pair of small gold lunate earrings; (B) String of 10 large beads from neck; calcite, chalcedony, steatite, copper and jasper; (C) String of small beads, lapis, agate, crystal, carnelian.
15306 (none) (none) (none) Beads: small gold & lapis balls.
15310C 31-17-98 (none) (none) Group: (A) Narrow gold ribbon spirally twisted: (B) Gold finger ring made from a strip of thin metal with the edges curled over to imitate 2 solid hoops; (C) Beads from necklace: carnelian, lapis, gold, hematite, agate, steatite: for order see field notes.; (D) Small gold and lapis ball head; (E) Small lapis & carnelian beads (only about 5 altogether, mixed in box with (D). See Field Notes.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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