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)
18290 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Puzuzu head.
18291 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Translucent green steatite.
18318 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Cylinders of blue glazed but with incised (moulded) patterns of zigzags between ring borders: beads 12mm-16mm long. Color unusually preserved.
18321 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian chisel-shaped pendants and balls, large and small, and a few double conoids. Order not original. Beads all brought in together.
18322 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Date shaped, of marble and other stones, coarsely made. Order not original but beads are brought in together.
18340 33-35-162 (none) (none) Calf's head in dark steatite. The neck pierced horizontally for attachment The eyes hollowed for inlay and a hole for inlay in the forehead. Good archaic work.
18342 33-35-165 (none) (none) Puzuzu head. Dark steatite. With ring for suspension. Coarse work. [drawing]
18347 33-35-155 (none) (none) Fruit of gold and carnelian. A simple bead of carnelian shaped thus [reference to drawing], through which is a slender gold stem with a rounded cap above.
18352 (none) (none) (none) Tortoise of grey steatite. L. 23mm
18362 (none) (none) (none) Amulet, shell a pig (?) pierced vertically through the body. [drawing]
18427 33-35-149 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian polished rings.
18428 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18432 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Polished carnelian rings.
18433 33-35-148 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian tumbler.
18439 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large shell tubular bead, date-shaped calcite head flattened on one end, carnelian rings and very small small rings and a few large ditto and one large ring of black stone.
18440 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings and 2 shell curved tubes.
18441 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and two barrel-shaped of black steatite and 1 shell cylindrical.
18445 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18449 (none) (none) (none) Tortoise [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18459 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings, 1 agate and 1 dark steatite cylindrical, 2 pink limestone short tubes and some shell rings.
18460 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings, lapis rings, 2 lapis tubular and one ball.
18462 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Shell and carnelian rings and very long bugles apparently of white paste (?) broken: also a barrel of dark steatite (?)
18464 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 3 long spacers made from the lips of cowtie shells, shell tubes and black stone barrel.
18465 33-35-152 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and 1 tubular.
18473 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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