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)
19247 (none) 1935,0112.80 (none) Beads. 1 shell tube, and 2 oval shell frontlets; diamond beads of lapis, mother-of-pearl, paste and limestone, paste balls, small shell rings, quartzite rhomboid and square paste spacers.
19223 (none) 1935,0112.81 (none) Beads. Lapis tubes & ovals, quartzite double conoids; also a quantity of shell rings, and some small shells pierced as beads.
18958 (none) 1935,0112.82 (none) Beads; paste cylinders, small, carnelian double conoids and barrels and diamonds and date-shaped; lapis double conoid and ball, quartzite rhomboid, large. One carnelian has bleached pattern. Restrung in original order.
19232 (none) 1935,0112.83 (none) Beads. Carnelian rings, one cylindrical, and a few lapis balls.
19237 (none) 1935,0112.84 (none) Beads. Carnelian cylinders, shell cylinders and lapis rings.
19430 (none) 1935,0112.86 (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and 1 tube, lapis balls, black and white marble balls, 1 quartzite lozenge-shape, 4 date-shaped red chalcedony (?)
12187A (none) 1935,0113.1 (none) Necklace. 4 strings. (A) Lapis & gold balls, also flattened lapis conoids & bleached carnelian bugles. (B) Lapis lentoids, gold balls and gold & lapis flies. (C) Like A. (D) Gold & lapis bugles, also gold fluted balls. [drawing]
(none) (none) 1935,0113.356 (none) (none)
9959 (none) 1935,0113.431 (none) Beads of wood (? ebony) double conoids
9981 (none) 1935,0113.432 (none) Beads Double conoids of silver and lapis, small
9997 (none) 1935,0113.434 (none) Bead Small double conoids of silver and lapis
10172 (none) 1935,0113.435 (none) Beads Worn round wrist 5 lapis double conoids; 4 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian double conoid; lapis and carnelian strung alternatively.
10700 (none) 1935,0113.438 (none) Beads 3 small steatite lentoids 1 glazed ball head 1 oval shaped composite pendant in 5 pieces, grooved vertically to receive string See Field Notes E
10848 (none) 1935,0113.443 (none) Beads 5 large carnelian lentoids and 1 small gold ball (from the neck)
15190.1 (none) 1935,0113.448 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Amethyst - hexagonal lentoids; glazed frit-lentoids. Copper balls.
15402 (none) 1935,0113.449 (none) Beads: glazed frit balls. Copper balls. Minute.
17799A (none) 1935,0113.452 (none) Beads. 2 lentoid agate. 2 flat lentoid catseye. 1 lentoid carnelian. 2 ball carnelian. 4 gold balls. 4 copper balls covered with gold.
18140 (none) 1935,0113.453 (none) Beads. Shell tubular, with spacer (poor).
18207A (none) 1935,0113.454 (none) Beads. A mixed lot, largely paste. The bulk were said to be from one grave. Yellow, blue and white rings and double conoids. Glass paste rings, dark grey; with the some stone beads which may not belong to the main set.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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