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. 

Objects: Miscellaneous Pieces Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16710A (none) 1931,1010.255 (none) Beads: 401 in all. Jasper, quartz, lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, cats eye, breccia, granite, amethyst, copper, and various mottled stones, reddish brown, grey, etc. 1 gold double conoid; order not know. Mostly lentoids. Also barrels, rings, double conoids, balls.
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]
16765 (none) 1931,1010.250 (none) Beads: circular rings glazed white with raised centres inlaid, glazed black. Beads perforated horizontally. 11 in all. [drawing 1:1]
16324 (none) 1931,1010.249 (none) Beads. 1 carnelian ball; 2-chalcedony lentoids; 1 hemispherical section lapis lazuli.
16695 (none) 1931,1010.247 (none) Beads. Glass paste: blue and yellow rings. 1 carnelian lentoid.
17348 (none) 1931,1010.246 (none) Beads. Glass paste. Possibly the Horus Eye? Discoid and barrel beads also animals head pendants - flat. [A-C] 3 animals of type (A). [D] 1 animal of type (B). Each has a raised border of blue glass paste on one side and a pellet of blue glass paste for the eyes. [E] One Puzuzu head [E]. [drawing]
17058 (none) 1931,1010.245 (none) Beads. Carnelian double conoids, ring beads. Glass paste barrels, balls, rings. Glass paste flat oval bead marked thus: [drawing 1:1]
17371 (none) 1931,1010.244 (none) Beads. Glass paste lentoids. Glass paste ring beads, small green.; Carnelian oval flat bead engraved thus: [reference to drawing]; Lapis lazuli ball bead. 1 jasper?; Double conoid. Dark green. 1 greenish quartzite double conoid. [drawing]
17061 (none) 1931,1010.243 (none) Beads. Carnelian balls, rings. Glass paste rings. 1 large jasper (?) lentoid. 1 hematite (?) Double conoid.
17043 (none) 1931,1010.242 (none) Beads. Glass paste balls and lentoids and barrels with combed pattern. Carnelian lentoids, discoids.
17089 (none) 1931,1010.240 (none) Beads. Carnelian and glass paste balls. 3 carnelian and 3 glass.
16715A (none) 1931,1010.239 (none) Beads: Glass paste. (1) circular yellow button beads with blue inlaid centres. (2) small yellow ring beads, (3) composite black and white tubular beads.
17098 (none) 1931,1010.238 (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids, bugles and double conoids.
(none) (none) 1931,1010.234 (none) (none)
16722 (none) 1931,1010.233 (none) Beads: Glass paste, bleached white, square section tubes. Poor condition.
16927D (none) 1931,1010.232 (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
17409 (none) 1931,1010.231 (none) Two bead. One carnelian ring bead. One reddish brown jasper thus: [reference to drawing] Tab anal. [drawing]
16382 (none) 1931,1010.230 (none) 3 beads: 2 jasper(?) double conoids; 1 facetted quartz lentoid.
16318 (none) 1931,1010.227 (none) Beads (6): 5 carnelian; one double pyramidal, two ball, one barrel, one blue glazed ball.
16217B (none) 1931,1010.226 (none) Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period.
16217C (none) 1931,1010.226 (none) Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period.
16376 (none) 1931,1010.225 (none) Beads: 2 carnelian balls; 1 jasper double conoid; 1 quartz lentoid; 2 puzuzu head amulets. [drawing 1:1]
16701 (none) 1931,1010.224 (none) Glass beads. Fragment of a green and white lentoid with combed pattern-large existing. And a few smaller glass double conoids bleached white, 2 dark green. 1 white calcite(?) lentoid.
17383 (none) 1931,1010.223 (none) Beads. Glass paste. Balls. Green. Cylindrical. White stone. Carnelian. Large lentoid. Glass paste (?) rectangular head.
16199 (none) 1931,1010.222 (none) Beads: Agate, lapis & frit scaraboids, one agate barrel.

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