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)
11964.1 30-12-653 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Part of Frontlet (?) 2 lapis & 1 gold facetted lentoid beads: (perhaps worn on silver chains which have disappeared)
12432M 30-12-657 (none) (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.
12433P 30-12-663 (none) (none) Tomb groups. From the bodies in the death pit. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --With No. 5: [A] Lapis and silver double conoid beads. [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. --With No. 7: [C] Lapis lentoid beads. --With No. 8: [D] Lapis double conoid beads and 1 long agate lentoid. --With No. 9: [E] Lapis double conoid beads. [F] Cylinder seal, white shell. --With No. 10: [G] Silver wire spiral coil earring. --With No. 11: [H] Lapis double beads --With No. 12: [I] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [J] Small lapis lentoid beads. --With No. 13: [K] Silver pin [Type] VI B with lapis head. [L] Lapis ball beads. --With No. 14: [M] Lapis ball beads --With No. 15: [N] Lapis and silver ball beads. --With No. 16: [O] Lapis and silver double conoid beads. --With No. 17: [P] Lapis ball beads. [Q] Silver wire spiral coil earring. --With No. 18: [R] Lapis lentoid beads. --With No. 20: [S] Lapis lentoid beads. --With No. 22: [T] Small lapis ball beads. [U] Also: one moderate sized silver lunate earring.
14983 31-16-512 (none) (none) Long-shanked stud(?) or nail. White obsidian. [drawing 1:1]
14259A 31-16-548 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 claw-shaped horn strips. Perforated for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
14259B 31-16-548 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 claw-shaped horn strips. Perforated for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
14259C 31-16-548 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 claw-shaped horn strips. Perforated for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
(none) 31-16-600 (none) (none) (none)
14928 31-16-764 (none) (none) Bead. Clay. Imitating one of shell core. Not in catalog.
14905 31-16-765 (none) (none) Bead. Clay. Imitation of one cut from the core of a shell, with spiral band. Not in catalog.
14954 31-16-778 (none) (none) Clay object. Uncertain use. Pierced through centre. [drawing 1:1]
14965 31-17-100 (none) (none) Beads. Small ring beads of white shell.
14471 31-17-102 (none) (none) Beads. 12 various. Not in catalog.
13744A 31-17-103 (none) (none) Beads. Mostly white shell: with them 2 white shell plaques, one oblong, one diamond shaped and some lapis and carnelian rings. For order see field notes.
15810 31-17-104 (none) (none) Beads. Shell. Not in catalog. [drawing 1:1]
14498B 31-17-105 (none) (none) Beads. Small lapis lazuli and carnelian barrels.
13784 31-17-132 (none) (none) Beads. One gold and three (discolored) lapis very large facetted lentoids. (the gold one of thin metal over bitumen, now split open) and 2 smaller lapis ditto: with them probably were carnelian rings (with 13783) but original order unknown.
14258 31-17-133 (none) (none) 3 large lentoid beads: 1 gold and 2 calcite(?).
13797B 31-17-136 (none) (none) [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis.
14096.2 31-17-137 (none) (none) [.1-.3] Necklace. Carnelian cylindrical beads and lapis lazuli barrels, strung alternately.
14096.3 31-17-138 (none) (none) [.1-.3] Necklace. Carnelian cylindrical beads and lapis lazuli barrels, strung alternately.
15406A 31-17-139 (none) (none) Grouped: [A] (1) Two strings of small lapis lazuli and silver lentoids. [B] (2) Three strings lapis lazuli ovoids. [C] (3) About 27 strings of lapis lazuli and silver double conoids. The majority of the beads appeared to have three strings. [D-M] (4) Five pairs of silver earrings of 2 1/2 coils each [D-M]. [N] (5) Fragment of a copper spindle whorl [N].
15406C 31-17-139 (none) (none) Grouped: [A] (1) Two strings of small lapis lazuli and silver lentoids. [B] (2) Three strings lapis lazuli ovoids. [C] (3) About 27 strings of lapis lazuli and silver double conoids. The majority of the beads appeared to have three strings. [D-M] (4) Five pairs of silver earrings of 2 1/2 coils each [D-M]. [N] (5) Fragment of a copper spindle whorl [N].
13594 31-17-140 (none) (none) Beads. Minute gold double conoid sard barrel, lapis ring bead.
15192.2 31-17-141 (none) (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Glazed frit and copper ball beads, and a few square section bone bugles.

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