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)
1285 (none) (none) B15591 Stone amulet. (?) Black stone, polished. Conventionalized representation of two heads (possibly rams?) and bodied, shoulder to shoulder, the bodies adorned with incised lines - the back plain. (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1]
14465A (none) 1935,0112.130 (none) Stone bead. Hard white pebble. Circular but cut away at either side. Not in catalog. See text p.32.
2764 (none) 1927,1003.190 (none) Stone dog. Couchant : of limestone, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
3176 (none) 1927,1003.255 (none) Stone fragment. Black stone of traditional design. Pierced for suspension.
17108 (none) (none) (none) Stone head. Dark steatite. For amulet (or for inlay?) unfinished work.
1284 (none) 1924,0920.50 (none) Stone Janus-head. Red stone. Beardless, flat-featured face, (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1]
2546 (none) (none) (none) Stone object. Black stone, spiral capital: hollow centre to shaft. [drawing]
1161 (none) (none) (none) Stone Pendant. Red polished stone, roughly conical, pierced for suspension (possibly an amulet?) [drawing 1:1]
9018 (none) (none) (none) String of beads 19 in all Small lapis, gold and carnelian barrel beads, a few ring beads and 2 large copper beads.
9231 (none) (none) (none) String of beads Lapis lozenges, 1 carnelian bugle and copper ball beads.
8497 (none) (none) (none) String of beads Worn over a silver diadem round the forehead. String consists of minute lapis ball beads and of oblong rectangular gold and lapis spacers. Gold and lapis spacers strung alternately with lapis and carnelian beads placed alternately between each spacer. Carnelian beads all minute ring beads. The silver diadem was entirely broken and destroyed. 6 gold spacers; 6 lapis lazuli spacers.
242 (none) (none) B15264 String of beads Light brown glass, sphenoids, rough 100 in all [Annotated] Phil delete
8130 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. 23 lapis lazuli. Small double conoids, ribbed barrel beads and bugle beads. 3 Carnelian ring beads.
9030 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. About 20. Minute carnelian and lapis ring beads. A carnelian barrel bead - a lapis ball bead.
8101 (none) (none) B16812 String of beads. Lapis lazuli. 16 double conoids.
1638 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (32) Small bugle or lentoid beads and balls; once glazed, now bleached white; the former had marbled patterns in different colors.
1640 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (36) Ball beads of carnelian and rock crystal with cat's eye center.
1641 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (39) Mixed shapes in carnelian, rock crystal, lapis lazuli, etc., with central bead of lapis wound round with gold wire.
1639 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (40) Restrung from loose beads. Carnelian rings and lentoids or bugles of carnelian, agate, onyx, etc.
7693 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis.
7893 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 52 in number. Small ring beads, a few double conoid and 1 large ball bead.
1637 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. large bugles and ball beads, frit, originally blue glazed, now bleached white.: 36 in all.
152 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. Red transluscent pebble, small barrels. 25 in all: found scattered and strung together.
2934 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. Small lentoids of carnelian, rock crystal, granite, hematite, red jasper, sard, shell, copper, etc., with shell disc pendant. Together and re-strung arbitrarily.
804 (none) (none) (none) Strip of leaf gold. Pierced with 2 holes at each end, by the corners, and 2 holes close together by either edge, at the middle. Probably for sewing on to a leather belt.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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