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)
15193 (none) 1930,1213.96 (none) Beads. Amethyst, carnelian and glzed frit. Faceted lentoids, 4-faced - lonzenge shaped in section, and hexagonal amethyst lentoids. Carnelian rings and balls, convex on either side and elliptical in section.
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.
15317 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Lapis, chalcedony, carnelian & agate (see Field Notes) the carnelian ball bead has a bleached pattern of crossed : the bleached carnelian is known in the main cemetery period, and this is the latest dated example except for the big Sargonid gold grave of 1928/9: the cross is usually called Kassite & its appearance thus early is important. [drawing]
15357 (none) 1930,1213.150 (none) Beads: One steatite flattened oval; one ring-bead of green-blue jade(?) and a quantity of minute while shell rings found with a head in the mixed burial L. [drawing 1:1]
15378 (none) 1930,1213.83, 1930,1213.84, 1930,1213.85 (none) Beads: very small rings of black stone & white shell worn at the wrist in many parallel strings, probably sewn on cloth.
15381 (none) 1930,1213.19 (none) Beads: Very small ring of white shell found on the arm of a body (one of a large group) which had no other burial furniture.
15402 (none) 1935,0113.449 (none) Beads: glazed frit balls. Copper balls. Minute.
15403 (none) 1930,1213.95 (none) Beads: Amethysts. Faceted double conoids & 3-sided lentoids. Agate. Tubular beads and heart-shaped pendant. Carnelian ring beads & faceted balls. Onyx: barrel.
15404 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Carnelian balls & double conoids. Agate lentoids and balls. Sard(?) bead shaped like a double bun. Gold double conoid with circular ridged ends. [drawing 1:1]
15447 (none) (none) (none) Glazed beads; and some felspar(?) beads. Glazed rings and felspar(?) cuboids.
15453 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Gold, agate and carnelian balls, and double conoids.
15462 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian double conoids & cylindrical; lapis lazuli cylindrical; 2 gold balls; 1 rock crystal ball; 1 silver decorated head. [drawing] TA
15463 (none) (none) (none) Beads: glazed cylindrical. Composite glazed ring beads. Composite glazed cylindrical in the shape of three tubes. Lapis paste cylindrical and 1 conical shell spindle whorl. Decorated with incised concentric circles. [drawing 1:1]
15485 (none) (none) (none) Silver Pendant. earring(?) [drawing 1:1]
15487 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings; onyx barels; paste balls; 1 faceted amethyst cylindrical.
15488 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings. A few paste cylindrical lapis lazuli paste ring beads - minute, a large number.
15492 (none) (none) (none) 8 beads. Carnelian and paste.
15498 (none) (none) (none) 7 paste beads. One imitation of agate.
15606 (none) (none) (none) Beads: dark steatite, falttened lentoid with engraved pattern (much worn). [drawing 1:1]
15705A (none) 1930,1213.101 (none) [A] Beads and [B] Silver finger ring: carnelian & agate bugles, 1 gold ring bead, silver finger ring is of flat strip metal, ends overlapping.
15708 (none) (none) (none) Glazed beads: worked ball heads and 1 barrel. [drawing]
15709 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu head. Minature. Glazed with cylindrical neck. [drawing 1:1]
15757 (none) 1930,1213.106 (none) Beads. Minute, carnelian rings.

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