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)
16737 (none) (none) (none) Frog amulet. Black steatite.
16738A (none) 1931,1010.91 (none) Puzuzu heads. [A] One shell, [B] one frit. Both pierced at top of head for suspension.
16738B (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu heads. [A] One shell, [B] one frit. Both pierced at top of head for suspension.
16756 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mostly glass paste, balls, rings, barrels, lentoids. Blue, green, black with yellow spots and black with white bands. One lapis half lentoid.
16757B (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Puzuzu Heads. Minute. Frit.
16757C (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Puzuzu Heads. Minute. Frit.
16757D (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Puzuzu Heads. Minute. Frit.
16757E (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Puzuzu Heads. Minute. Frit.
16757F (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Puzuzu Heads. Minute. Frit.
16764 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings; 1 hematite and 2 brown stone lentoids.
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]
16766 (none) 1931,1010.259 (none) Beads: glass paste. Rings, balls, lentoids; large collection. Blue, green, yellow; one with green and yellow stripes.
16767A (none) (none) (none) [A] Beads: glass paste: balls, rings, lentoids - a few fluted balls. Also. [B-D] 3 scaraboid seals glazed with quasi hieroglyphic signs, and [E-F] 2 Puzuzu heads.
16774 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian balls; 1 large carnelian lentoid; 1 agate barrel; 2 flattened calcite lentoids.
16782 (none) (none) (none) Beads: 1 carnleian ring bead; 1 carnelian double conoid; 1 carnelian lentoid; 1 agate lentoid; 1 quartz lentoid; 1 lapis lentoid.
16796A (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16796B (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16796C (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16796D (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16796E (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16798 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Glazed baked clay. Dwarf male figure with a protruding paunch. Head, arms, and trunk only represented - rounded off below hips. Perforated laterally behind the shoulders. [drawing c. 1:1]
16800 (none) (none) (none) White shell amulet. In form of a duck with a star engraved on the base.
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]
17004 (none) (none) (none) Frog amulet. Frit. Glazed. Left legs missing. Type. Same as U.16634.
17008 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glass paste rings - minute. Carnelian rings - minute.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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