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)
18474 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18475 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18483 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Shell tubes and rings.
18484 33-35-150 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18485 33-35-157 (none) (none) Beads. Very small blue paste balls.
18498 33-35-161 (none) (none) Shell figurine. Flat, in low relief. [drawing 1:1]
18499 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Fish. (the mouth broken away) [drawing 1:1]
18501 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small shells (gastropods) used as beads and horn shells
18522 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings. One large steatite (?) ring.
18554 33-35-145 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and shell cylindrical, the latter coarsely made.
18555 33-35-146 (none) (none) Beads. Long rings of cowrie and other shells, shell rings and tubular, large flat rings of black stone, lapis cylindrical and balls, carnelian cylindrical.
18557 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian: 100 unfinished beads, only roughly chipped into shape and unpierced (one has the piercing started but not finished): intended for rings and cylindrical
18576 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and one short tube of white frit probably once glazed.
18580 33-35-147 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings.
18581 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and one cylindrical of black stone.
18582 (none) (none) B 16723 Beads. Carnelian rings, lapis cylindrical and 2 white steatite beads.
18588 33-35-154 (none) (none) Pottery bead (half of). The design carved in the clay after firing. [drawing 1:1]
18589 (none) (none) (none) Pottery bead. The design carved in the clay after firing. [drawing 1:1]
18690 33-35-153 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian balls and date-shaped, and one lapis lazuli ring.
18692 (none) (none) (none) Bead of clouded pale mauve chalcedony. [drawing]
18693A (none) (none) (none) Amulets. Shell. In the shape of a human hand. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) The open hand. (B) Clenched hand.
18698 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian: chisel shaped pendant, tubes and cylinders.
18740 35-1-78 (none) (none) Beads: of glazed frit and glass paste mostly yellow and green, many of the beads being green with a yellow tip; these are pear-shaped or date-shaped; there are also plain yellow ring beads, a lapis scaraboid and a green-glazed frit scarab, and yellow date-shaped beads.
18752 (none) (none) (none) Dog amulet. Bronze. [drawing]
18781 (none) (none) (none) Frog amulet. Light grey steatite. [drawing 1:1]

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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