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)
9875 (none) (none) (none) 13 Carnelian ring beads. Coarsely cut, chipped circumference after the manner of the earliest beads from Al Obaid. 1 very roughly cut flattened double conoid; polished black hematite. Date: before 3500 BC
9889 (none) (none) (none) 3 Beads Two carnelian ring beads, 1 lapis lentoid
9894 (none) 1928,1010.179 (none) 5 Beads Three carnelian bugles, two gold ball beads strung thus:-carnelian, gold,; gold, carn.
9920 (none) (none) B17585 Beads Lapis double conoids and a few silver balls
9921 (none) (none) (none) Beads Silver balls and lapis double conoids. (from the neck)
9930 (none) (none) B17589 Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver.
9932 (none) (none) B17583 Beads. 2 carnelian and 2 lapis bugles.
9935B (none) (none) (none) (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead.
9936 (none) (none) B16734 Beads, etc. From a diadem. 1 large gold lentoid bead; 4 ditto. lapis; and with them fragments of a silver chain. See field notes.
9954 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis, carnelian and paste rings Originally strung in sets of 3
9959 (none) 1935,0113.431 (none) Beads of wood (? ebony) double conoids
9960 (none) (none) (none) Beads Lapis Double conoids
9965 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis. Double conoids.
9981 (none) 1935,0113.432 (none) Beads Double conoids of silver and lapis, small
9985 (none) (none) B17642 Beads double conoids of gold and lapis small Strung in groups of 4 or 8, in alternate colors
9997 (none) 1935,0113.434 (none) Bead Small double conoids of silver and lapis
9999A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver
9999B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver
9999C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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