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)
8269 (none) (none) B16685 Bull pendant. Gold. Reclining bull. Body in profile - bearded head turned to the left originally there were 4 small gold beads tied to right side of body for attachment to a chain; only two of these now remain.
6926 (none) (none) B16350 Bull pendant. Mottled greenish marble. Flat base. E. [drawing 1:1]
6478 (none) (none) B16349 Bull pendant. White shell, resting on flat base, one side only shaped, other side flat. Body in profile, head full face. See photograph 555 [unclear if this is photo or reference]. E. [drawing]
7067 (none) 1927,0527.141 (none) Bull. Pendant. Pink steatite. E. [drawing 1:1]
17930C (none) (none) (none) Burial group. (A) Fragments of twisted hair ribbon. (B) One gold spirally coiled hair ring, hollow lunated ends. (C) Strings of beads on copper wire, alternate steatite and shell painted with gold, terminating in boss of steatite inlaid with shell panels alternately painted yellow. (D) Necklace of gold diamonds, gold ribbed balls, flat lentoid agates, barrel, carnelians, diamond carnelians, and lentoid steatite, etc. Carnelian balls. (E) Copper bowl.
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.
16684 31-43-155 (none) (none) Carnelian and frit beads. [card shows only profile drawing of a vase]
9839 (none) (none) (none) Carnelian Bead Double conoid Worn alone round neck [drawing]
13054 (none) (none) (none) Carnelian bead. Fragment of a cylinder seal with a presentation scene and inscription. Three figures end below waist and 2 signs for ilu alone remain.
10356 (none) (none) B17666 Carnelian beads 2 strings of small barrel beads
6919 (none) (none) (none) Carnelian beads. Collection of 22. Some broken. E.
12342 (none) (none) (none) Carnelian bugle bead.
498 (none) (none) B15257 Carnelian head of Puzu. Looking very sick.
2531 (none) (none) (none) Carved shell head. Male, shaven. Neck pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
2534 (none) (none) (none) Carved shell mask. Mother-of-pearl. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
469 (none) 1923,1110.174 (none) Chain of beads. Long beads [drawing] thus, alternately of carnelian and lapis lazuli, uniform in size. 24 lapis and 23 carneliean, and 1 larger lapis, 1 large carnelian and 2 large agate beads: all had golden cap at each end of very thin gold (3 caps are missing) Found loose and strung together: but all were found close together and probably formed a single string. Photo no 45.
14448 (none) 1930,1213.369 (none) Clay bead. Fragment. Tubular, with ridges round the end. [drawing 1:1]
1283 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. (head missing) Like U.1280.
1277 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. (head missing) [drawing 1:1]
1278 (none) 1924,0920.177 (none) Clay duck. Light clay. Pierced horizontally for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1280 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Light. Clay. Pierced vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1279 (none) (none) B15721 Clay duck. Like U.1278. P.
1281 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Like U.1280
1282 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. Like U.1280
1276 (none) 1924,0920.174 (none) Clay frog. Drab clay. Pierced for suspension. (broken) [drawing 1:1]

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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