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)
16354 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian barrels, rings, lentoids. Bone? rings. Steatite rings. Shells
16361 (none) 1931,1010.251 (none) Beads: 3 glazed button beads. Circular, white, flat on one side; other side convex with a blude centre. Each perforated with two holes. [drawing]
16363 (none) (none) (none) Beads: 3 gold barrel beads: carnelian rings and a plain scaraboid; 3 lapis scaraboids 1 with design; 2 steatite double concoids; glass paste ring bead-broken; 1 lapis (?) ball bead. [drawing]
16369 31-43-127 (none) (none) Bracelet. Beads: Carnelian rings and a few glass balls (decayed).
1637 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. large bugles and ball beads, frit, originally blue glazed, now bleached white.: 36 in all.
16370 31-43-127 (none) (none) Bracelet. Beads: Ivory(?) double hemispherical beads & carnelian rings.
16376 (none) 1931,1010.225 (none) Beads: 2 carnelian balls; 1 jasper double conoid; 1 quartz lentoid; 2 puzuzu head amulets. [drawing 1:1]
1638 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (32) Small bugle or lentoid beads and balls; once glazed, now bleached white; the former had marbled patterns in different colors.
16382 (none) 1931,1010.230 (none) 3 beads: 2 jasper(?) double conoids; 1 facetted quartz lentoid.
16384 (none) 1931,1010.269 (none) Beads. Minute silver and glass balls.
16385 31-43-134 (none) (none) Glass ring beads.
1639 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (40) Restrung from loose beads. Carnelian rings and lentoids or bugles of carnelian, agate, onyx, etc.
16394 (none) (none) (none) Beads, 2: Sard lentoid, lapis bugle.
1640 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (36) Ball beads of carnelian and rock crystal with cat's eye center.
16400 (none) 1931,1010.88 (none) Amulet(?) Obsidian. In shape of birds head. Part of beak missing. Socketed and possibly for fitting on to some other material. [drawing 1:1]
16406 31-43-205 (none) (none) Puzuzu head amulet. White frit, originally glazed. [drawing 1:1]
1641 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (39) Mixed shapes in carnelian, rock crystal, lapis lazuli, etc., with central bead of lapis wound round with gold wire.
1642 (none) (none) (none) Beads (10) Carnelian, agate, etc., found together.
16429DD (none) 1932,1008.59 (none) (none)
1643 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very small gold ball beads, some plain, some fluted; found all together, with a few small lapis and carnelian beads. Sixty strung together, others loose. (purchased)
1644 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Loose beads from Ur, not strung together.
16560 (none) (none) (none) Steatite bead With Magical inscription. (cf. Neissner, Bablonian u. Assyrien. II, 214).
16607 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu head. White frit.
1661 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mixed set, carnelian, shell, agate, etc., and one large gold bead. Brought in together.
16616 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu Amulet. Yellowish frit. Prominent ears..

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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