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)
17070A 31-43-311 (none) (none) Frog amulets 6 [A-F, F is miniature]. Frit. Two glazed yellow. Glazed yellow. [drawing 1:1]
16128B 31-43-309 (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of tortoises. White frit. Criss-cross markings on back end and underside. Pierced for suspension. cf U.16755. [drawing 1:1]
17071A 31-43-308 (none) (none) Frit amulets. [A] A pair of fish (A) and (B) [not reference to multiple objects] tails missing. [drawing 1:1] [B] A tortoise. [C] A pair of ducks. [D] A bead pendant. [E] A monkey (head missing). [F] Rosettes. [Drawing 1:1]
16660 31-43-286 (none) (none) Pendant. -Volcanic(?) stone, mica schist-. Specular iron ore. [drawing 1:1]
17120 31-43-207 (none) (none) Amulet of dark grey steatite in form of a tortoise [drawing 1:1]
16757A 31-43-206 (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Puzuzu Heads. Minute. Frit.
16406 31-43-205 (none) (none) Puzuzu head amulet. White frit, originally glazed. [drawing 1:1]
17433 31-43-202 (none) (none) Puzuzu amulet. Steatite.
16758 31-43-197 (none) (none) Amulet. Blue glazed frit. In shape of goose with one wing extended. With crown(?) on head. Tip of crown & tip of base missing.
16296 31-43-171 (none) (none) Kidney(?) model, in black stone. [drawing 1:1]
17050 31-43-170 (none) (none) Beads. From a bracelet. Glass paste ring beads - reddish. White glass paste discoids with black centers. 12 minute glass paste puzuzu head amulets.
17418 31-43-168 (none) (none) Beads. Glass. Balls. White with blue globules set in to the bead thus giving a white surface with blue spots usually six in all.
16351A 31-43-167 (none) (none) [A-B] A pair of calcite beads. Lentoid-lozenge-shaped in section. One end of second bead missing. [drawing 1:1]
16775 31-43-166 (none) (none) Beads: minute shell rings.
16219B 31-43-165A (none) (none) [A] Fibula, bronze. Slender type. Pin broken: with it [B] 11 beads of carnelian, lapis, agate, band sard. [drawing 1:1]
17054 31-43-164 (none) (none) 4 beads. 1 amethyst - 4 sided [represented in drawing] lozenge shaped section. 3 carnelian (2 discoid and 1 ring bead). 1 bone lentoid. [drawing]
16781A 31-43-163 (none) (none) [A] Beads: carnelian rings and barrels; [B-E] 4 glass paste Puzuzu heads; [F] lapis lazuli barrels; [G] glass paste rings, balls and lentoids; [H] 1 hematite lentoid; [I] 1 fluted glass paste, ring bead with ridged ends; [J] also a copper earring with uvular pendant.
16682A 31-43-162 (none) (none) Beads. Glass paste, balls and ovoids.
16688 31-43-160 (none) (none) 5 beads: 1 gold ball-fluted with ridged ends; 1 carnelian ball and double conoid; 1 hemispherical sard; 1 lapis lazuli barrel.
17056 31-43-159 (none) (none) Beads. Amethyst oval, flat on our side, convex on the other. Quartz lentoids and double conoids. Jasper lentoid. Agate barrels and lentoids. Granite double conoid. Black steatite amulet, on oval shaped stamp seal with an animal figure engraved thereon surmounted by a squatting lion. Glass paste scaraboid bead. Carnelian double conoids.
17026 31-43-158 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian ball. Calcite (?) lentoid. Baked clay ring bead. Steatite ring bead.
16684 31-43-155 (none) (none) Carnelian and frit beads. [card shows only profile drawing of a vase]
17021.1 31-43-150 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. About 130 in all. Carnelian, lentoids, balls, rings, double conoids, discoids. Lapis lazuli double conoids, rings and discoid. Glass paste balls, and a few worked discoids.
16726 31-43-149 (none) (none) Beads: glass paste. Green and white, including one large lentoid with combed patter. Barrels and rings.
16795.1 31-43-148 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads: glass paste: balls, lentoids, pear-shaped beads, 1 variegated glass bugle bead-combed decoration. Also carnelian, agate and steatite; and some worked yellow glazed beads.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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