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)
16212 (none) (none) (none) Beads: A mixed lot of paste, carnelian, agate, jasper, cats eye, crystal, breccia, sard, hematite, lapis, copper, amethyst. Order not kept.
16213 31-43-146 (none) (none) Beads: A large number of rather irregularly shaped balls of banded green & yellow glaze, well preserved: larger ball beads of glass paste, dark blue with white veinings or plain blue: and a few smaller glass beads (clour gone) either bugles or..., these apprantly of yellow glaze; originally a very poor string. With these a scarab of pale blue glazed frit, fairly realistic. [drawing]
16246G (none) (none) (none) Group: [C-D] 2 copper scale-pans; [A-B] 2 steatite weights (black), (A) long ovoid Type III. 2.75 grs = 1 minette (nominal weight 2.805 grs.) (B) lentoid Type III. 1.728 grs. =1/2 minette(?) (nominal weight 1.4025 grs.); [E] 1 copper chisel; Type [F] 1 copper ring; [G] 1 hollow gold bead, spherical, ribbed.
16256 (none) (none) (none) Gold leaf. Crumpled-up fragments of thin gold sheets, obviously torn off some object & bundled together for removal. It was not found quite on the threshold, but just above it amongst the fallen bricks, so that it is not certain at all that it actually belonged to the doorway.
16261 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small carnelian lentoids with a few carnelian balls, 3 lapis beads and a square lapis bead pierced in both directions.
16264 (none) (none) (none) Bead in form of a couchant lion: carnelian.
16285 (none) (none) (none) Beads: mostly amethyst. 4 facetted flattened lentoids, with these some squares of banded sard, small carnelian balls and some paste and shell rings, and a crescent-shaped pendant of agate. For order see Field Notes.
16286G (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
16296 31-43-171 (none) (none) Kidney(?) model, in black stone. [drawing 1:1]
16301 (none) (none) (none) Beads: glass paste, balls, barrels, and worked double conoids.
16302 (none) (none) (none) Pendant, Shale. [drawing 1:1]
16325 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glass paste balls, rings and lentoids.
16351A 31-43-167 (none) (none) [A-B] A pair of calcite beads. Lentoid-lozenge-shaped in section. One end of second bead missing. [drawing 1:1]
16354 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian barrels, rings, lentoids. Bone? rings. Steatite rings. Shells
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).
16370 31-43-127 (none) (none) Bracelet. Beads: Ivory(?) double hemispherical beads & carnelian rings.
16385 31-43-134 (none) (none) Glass ring beads.
16394 (none) (none) (none) Beads, 2: Sard lentoid, lapis bugle.
16406 31-43-205 (none) (none) Puzuzu head amulet. White frit, originally glazed. [drawing 1:1]
16560 (none) (none) (none) Steatite bead With Magical inscription. (cf. Neissner, Bablonian u. Assyrien. II, 214).
16607 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu head. White frit.
16616 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu Amulet. Yellowish frit. Prominent ears..
16624 (none) (none) (none) Frog amulet. White shell. Top of head missing. [drawing 1:1]
16625A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Fly(?) amulet. 3 alabaster; 1 veined; 2 white. Perforated head. [drawing 1:1]

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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