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)
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.
16682A 31-43-162 (none) (none) Beads. Glass paste, balls and ovoids.
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.
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]
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]
16775 31-43-166 (none) (none) Beads: minute shell rings.
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]
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.
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.
16296 31-43-171 (none) (none) Kidney(?) model, in black stone. [drawing 1:1]
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.
17433 31-43-202 (none) (none) Puzuzu amulet. Steatite.
16406 31-43-205 (none) (none) Puzuzu head amulet. White frit, originally glazed. [drawing 1:1]
16757A 31-43-206 (none) (none) [A-F] 6 Puzuzu Heads. Minute. Frit.
17120 31-43-207 (none) (none) Amulet of dark grey steatite in form of a tortoise [drawing 1:1]
16660 31-43-286 (none) (none) Pendant. -Volcanic(?) stone, mica schist-. Specular iron ore. [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]
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]
17070A 31-43-311 (none) (none) Frog amulets 6 [A-F, F is miniature]. Frit. Two glazed yellow. Glazed yellow. [drawing 1:1]
16741 31-43-313 (none) (none) Frit frog. Coarse workmanship. Type see U.16634.
17070B 31-43-314 (none) (none) Frog amulets 6 [one miniature] [A-F]. Frit. Two glazed yellow. Glazed yellow. [drawing 1:1]
17006 31-43-484 (none) (none) Amulet. In shape of date stone. Limestone? White [drawing 1:1]
17813E 32-40-227 (none) (none) Group. From one burial. (A) [A and K-L] 3 gold frontlets. (B) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (C) [C and M] Two gold hair-rings, spirally coiled with lunate ends, with one of them [N] a silver ring. (D) Beads: a string of very small fluted gold balls and carnelian balls and one very thin lapis bugle with gold caps. (E) Beads: gold balls, agate, carnelian, marble and jasper; long bugles, flattened lentoids, disks and lentoids. (F) [F and O] Two gold bracelets, of thin gold bent over copper wire. (G) Silver bracelet, plain wire. (H) [H and I] Copper bracelets, 2, plain wire. (J) Copper axe, thus: [reference to drawing] a copy of the old type but not cast: hammered and the socket made by bending. Type S10. [drawing]
17660B 32-40-228 (none) (none) Group. From a single grave (A) [A, E-F] 3 gold earrings, small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads: very small gold balls: carnelian rings and balls and 1 bugle, marble and steatite elongated lentoids, agate square and conoid pendant (?) (or spindle whorl) apparently of wood : original order mostly preserved. (C) Cylinder seal: shell. Two rampant animals: very poor and worn. (D) A pair of thick copper bangles [D and G]
17787C 32-40-229 (none) (none) Beads. 2 double conoid carnelian. 1 lentoid carnelian. 5 double conoid silver. 3 barrel agate. 31 flat lentoid agate. 1 flat lentoid steatite. Necklace of 17 agates, rectangular with vesical section. Necklace of 23 lentoid agates and 14 gold balls.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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