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)
6795 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli, gold and paste.
19073 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli. Two large date-shaped and a number of small balls.
8689B (none) (none) B16956 Beads. Lapis lazuli. Double conoids. Strung with the gold beads U.8689A.
6798 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli. Large collection.
11514 (none) 1929,1017.303 (none) Beads. Lapis lentoids & double conoids with 2 ribbed gold balls & a few carnelians (rings and 1 bugle).
11720 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lentoids & double conoids.
18900 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis triangles and date-shpaed, 4 tubular; carnelian balls; larger limestone(?) balls; chalcedony flattened date-shaped.
8164 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, carnelian and silver. About 180 in all. The lapis and carnelian are double conoids: some of the silver are the same, some are treble ball heads and some are imitation shells. Strung, silver lapis carnelian lapis silver.
8667 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, carnelian, 1 chalcedony, 1 silver disk bead (broken) and two or three gold plated beads in bad condition. See field notes.
12047 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, gold & silver, with very small carnelian rings.
11560 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, gold, carnelian & shell forming a belt. (See Field Notes). NB = Most of the beads are in the mixed collection. Then put apart in a cigarette box an almost [illegible 3 word phrase] of the same belt.)
12458 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, mostly double conoids. Found loose on the chamber floor.
9650 (none) (none) B17665 Beads. Lapis, small double conoids and lentoids.
11165 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, very small. Found in thousands on & under the skull in the south corner of the chamber, against the inlaid stela.
11157 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis. A large quantity found loose on the floor of the grave: also, 7 large gold double conoids.
9965 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis. Double conoids.
19438 35-1-96 (none) (none) Beads. lapis. ovals, balls, ck[?]
8210 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large balls of lapis. See field notes: almost certainly strung together with no silver beads between. They seem to be connected with the silver flower ornament (U.8212) and perhaps formed a chaplet round the head from which the flowers rose.
10977A 83-7-1.5 (none) B17287 Beads. Large bugles of agate with lapis balls between.
18440 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings and 2 shell curved tubes.
19851 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings.
19854 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings.
19856 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings.
19857 35-1-83 (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings.
11910 30-12-562 (none) (none) Beads. Large double conoids of electrum and carnelian and flat lentoids of carnelian and gold: all from one string on the chest of the central figure in the domed chamber.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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