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)
12432I (none) 1929,1017.281 (none) Tomb groups. With bodies. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --No. 3: [A] Whetstone. --No. 11: [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [C] Lapis and silver lentoid and bugle beads. --No. 13: [D] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [E] Facetted lapis bugles and some silver lentoid beads. --No. 14: [F-G] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings . [H] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 15: [I] Double conoid lapis beads. --No. 16: [J] Very small lapis ball beads. --No.17: [K] Large facetted lapis lentoids. --No. 18: [L] Lapis double conoid beads. --No. 19: [M] Lapis lentoids and some silver beads. --No. 20: [N-O] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [P] Lapis lentoid beads. --No. 21: [Q] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 22: [R] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. [S] Facetted lapis lentoid beads. [T] Cylinder seal, white shell, decayed (not kept) --No. 23: [U] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [V] Lapis and silver small lentoid beads and a few lapis balls.
18449 (none) (none) (none) Tortoise [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18352 (none) (none) (none) Tortoise of grey steatite. L. 23mm
6856 (none) (none) B16374 Tortoise. White frit, and glazed. E. [drawing 1:1]
17409 (none) 1931,1010.231 (none) Two bead. One carnelian ring bead. One reddish brown jasper thus: [reference to drawing] Tab anal. [drawing]
3068A (none) (none) (none) Two ducks. Of white frit originally glazed. Pierced for suspension.
3068B (none) (none) (none) Two ducks. Of white frit originally glazed. Pierced for suspension.
8017 (none) (none) (none) Two gold beads. Elongated double conoids made of thin gold leaf over a core which has split and decayed, leaving the gold in fragments. These beads went with U.8011.
18210 (none) (none) (none) Vulture's head. Mottled dark steatite. The eyes deeply hollowed to receive inlay. The lower side of the head is smoothly finished, with no sign of any attachment to a body: the head might have been used for a weight (?) or, is isolated, as an amulet. Fine bold work.
6088 (none) 1927,0527.135 (none) White limestone? Ring. E. [drawing]
16800 (none) (none) (none) White shell amulet. In form of a duck with a star engraved on the base.
8009 (none) (none) B17622 White shell beads. All small, mostly minute: several thousands of them, with one white spacer.
17882.1 32-40-243 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads a small mixed collection of agate, carnelian, shell, marble, green quartzite (?), hematite and steatite and lapis . Paste = lentoids, rings, balls, barrels, bugles and one chisel shaped head.
17882.2 32-40-244 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads a small mixed collection of agate, carnelian, shell, marble, green quartzite (?), hematite and steatite and lapis . Paste = lentoids, rings, balls, barrels, bugles and one chisel shaped head.
15190.1 (none) 1935,0113.448 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Amethyst - hexagonal lentoids; glazed frit-lentoids. Copper balls.
15190.2 31-17-62 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Amethyst - hexagonal lentoids; glazed frit-lentoids. Copper balls.
15192.1 (none) 1930,1213.93 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles.
15192.2 31-17-141 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles.
15119.1 (none) 1930,1213.94 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Lapis lazuli & carnelian cylindrical beads.
15119.2 31-17-65 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Lapis lazuli & carnelian cylindrical beads.
18252.1 (none) 1933,1013.155 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. A mixed lot of carnelian balls, cylinder and facetted date shaped: steatite cylinders, crystal rings, yellow glaze strip, green glaze tubular, yellow glaze hub type, green glaze scaraboid, poopy seed pendant (carnelian) glass paste balls etc.
18252.2 (none) 1933,1013.165 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. A mixed lot of carnelian balls, cylinder and facetted date shaped: steatite cylinders, crystal rings, yellow glaze strip, green glaze tubular, yellow glaze hub type, green glaze scaraboid, poopy seed pendant (carnelian) glass paste balls etc.
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.
17021.2 (none) 1931,1010.261 (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.
17891.1 (none) 1932,1008.147 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Ball beads of blue-glazed frit, different sizes. The glaze on most has perished. IIIrd dynasty.

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