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)
6823 (none) (none) (none) Lapis lazuli bead. Mussel shaped. E. [drawing 1:1]
8008 (none) (none) B16815 Lapis lazuli beads. A great number, all small, some minute. With lapis spacers for 3 parallel strings.
2918 (none) 1927,1003.253 (none) Lapis lazuli bull. Couchant with head turned. Pierced in three places for suspension.
8004 (none) 1928,1009.84 (none) Large ball bead of lapis with gold caps. Sphere with ribbed sides.
3302 (none) (none) (none) Large bead. Fine quality lapis lazuli. Flat. Sketch 1:1. [drawing 1:1]
9703 (none) (none) B17591 Lead? and copper specimens Misshapen lumps
8270 (none) (none) (none) Leaf pendant. Gold. Very slightly concave. Slight rib down middle. Thin handle at top folded over and rolled so as to form three loops for attachment to a chain. [drawing] 1:1
6071 (none) (none) (none) Limestone. White bead. [drawing]
14983 31-16-512 (none) (none) Long-shanked stud(?) or nail. White obsidian. [drawing 1:1]
6486 (none) (none) (none) Miniature bull pendant. Alabaster. Greenish yellow. B. [drawing 1:1]
2909 (none) (none) (none) Miniature frog. Black stone: pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
3126 (none) 1927,1003.239 (none) Miniature frog. Crystal, left back leg missing.
6487 (none) 1927,0527.151 (none) Miniature left foot of doll? Shell. Bone color. Hole pierced in top and inside of foot. E.
6097 (none) 1927,0527.136 (none) Minute bead in shape of man's head. E. [drawing 1:1]
3157 (none) 1927,1003.250 (none) Model hand. Pinkish stone, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
17691 (none) 1932,1008.182 (none) Mould. Marble. Pendant, design indistinguishable. [drawing 1:1]
2937D.15 (none) 1927,1003.222 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C] three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. [Drawing] (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]
2937D.1 (none) 1927,1003.209 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]
2937D.2 (none) 1927,1003.210 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]
2937D.3 (none) 1927,1003.211 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]
2937D.4 (none) 1927,1003.212 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]
2937D.5 (none) 1927,1003.213 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]
2937D.6 (none) 1927,1003.214 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]
2937D.7 (none) 1927,1003.215 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]
2937D.8 (none) 1927,1003.216 (none) Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card]

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