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)
9930 (none) (none) B17589 Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver.
9932 (none) (none) B17583 Beads. 2 carnelian and 2 lapis bugles.
9935B (none) (none) (none) (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead.
9936 (none) (none) B16734 Beads, etc. From a diadem. 1 large gold lentoid bead; 4 ditto. lapis; and with them fragments of a silver chain. See field notes.
9954 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis, carnelian and paste rings Originally strung in sets of 3
9960 (none) (none) (none) Beads Lapis Double conoids
9965 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis. Double conoids.
9985 (none) (none) B17642 Beads double conoids of gold and lapis small Strung in groups of 4 or 8, in alternate colors
9999C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver
10006 (none) (none) (none) Beads Double conoids of gold and lapis The larger gold beads are of foil over bitumen, the smaller more solid: the largest are unusually large, both in gold and lapis
10007 (none) (none) (none) Beads Triangles of 11 gold and 11 lapis
10008 (none) (none) (none) Frog Amulet. Lapis [drawing]
10009 (none) (none) (none) Amulet Lapis In form of a seated ram [drawing] 1:1
10026 (none) (none) (none) Beads A set of silver ring pendants, much decayed, strung with carnelian bugles and small lapis beads (found in confusion)
10027 (none) (none) (none) Gold Leaves (14) Strung with small beads of lapis and carnelian. The order is the normal one: some were found with the beads still in between - 1 small carnelian ring, 2 blue bugles, 1 small carnelian ring. (many of the beads are mixed with U.10026)
10028 (none) (none) (none) Beads 6 gold composite (triune) beads lentoid probably strung with small lapis lentoids: but found in confusion. Certainly lapis and gold lentoids (small) were used together and were found mixed up on the left side of the coffin where these spacers were also found.
10089 (none) (none) (none) Beads Double lentoids of lapis and gold See Field Notes
10090 (none) (none) (none) Beads Large lentoids, 2 lapis, 1 silver, 2 bitumen(broken) NB the carnelian rings probably went between the large beads
10161 (none) (none) (none) 2 Beads Fluted gold ball on a copper core Rounded double conoid carnelian
10171 (none) (none) (none) 3 Beads Glazed double conoids Strung round neck All broken. Majority had perished
10304 (none) (none) (none) 6 Beads Two carnelian bugles, & 4 crystal ring beads - strung alternatively.
10313 (none) (none) (none) Beads Bangle Lapis & silver double conoids on wooden cores Minute gold, lapis and silver balls For order of stringing cf. Field Note
10315 (none) (none) (none) 5 Beads 2 lapis bugles 2 carnelian bugles 1 carnelian diamond. Originally strung with wooden double conoids, all of which had decayed. For order see Field Note.
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.
10338 (none) (none) (none) 13 Gold (Mulberry?) Leaves Strung with carnelian rings and lapis bugles in the normal manner Worn round forehead

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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