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)
7666 (none) (none) (none) 3 complete carnelian beads. 2 fragments. One small lentoid, the rest large bugle beads slightly convex in the middle. One of the 3 complete beads broken and mended. Neo-Babylonian.
7678 (none) (none) B16818 Puzuzu. Miniature head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1]
7688 (none) (none) (none) Frit beads.
7693 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis.
7696 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Gold. Gold ring with gold filigree support dividing it to hold 4 small gold cones made of spiral gold wire. Gold foil clip attached to top of pendant.
7893 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 52 in number. Small ring beads, a few double conoid and 1 large ball bead.
7918 (none) (none) (none) Bead. Agate. Lentoid.
7924 (none) (none) (none) Bead Crystal Cylindrical with truncated conical top. [drawing 1:1]
7958 (none) (none) (none) Beads of carnelian etc. From a bracelet. 2 carnelian, 4 jasper (blood stone), lentoid bugles, 4 silver ball beads, 1 gold plated copper ball bead (decayed).
7962 (none) (none) (none) Beads of lapis, carnelian and gold, and one agate. Double conoids of different sizes, and 2 large gold-plated ball beads. 34 gold beads in all. There was evidence that these formed a separate string, stone and metal beads strung alternately.
8005 (none) (none) (none) Gold ornament. A pear-shaped bead(?) pierced longitudinally, on which is perched a small bird apparently pecking at the fruit. In spite of the minute size the bird is well done and the eye and all the feathers are marked.
8008 (none) (none) B16815 Lapis lazuli beads. A great number, all small, some minute. With lapis spacers for 3 parallel strings.
8009 (none) (none) B17622 White shell beads. All small, mostly minute: several thousands of them, with one white spacer.
8010 (none) (none) B17667 Beads. Carnelian. Mostly minute ring beads. With them a few small balls etc.
8011A (none) (none) B16811 Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carnelians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017]
8012 (none) (none) B16811 Beads. 15 lapis ball beads of different sizes but all large: some are ribbed. Perhaps strung up with U.8011.
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.
8040 (none) (none) (none) Beads 3 carnelian and a number of small lapis
8044 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small rings of green glazed frit, A few lapis beads One carnelian One shell
8050 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Of lapis lazuli. 10 large double conoids & two similar of silver (one broken).
8054 (none) (none) B16791 Beads. Mixed carnelian and lapis. With 2 lapis frog amulets.
8070 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli. Small conoids, balls, and a few bugles. 130 in all.
8072 (none) (none) B16806 Amulet of grey slate in form of a bird. [drawing 1:1]
8073 (none) (none) (none) Amulet of mother o'pearl Inlaid with 2 spots of lapis of which one has dropped out. [drawing 1:1]
8083A (none) (none) B16837 [A-B] Two beads Of glazed frit. Originally blue, now bleached. Large striated or ribbed beads, one spherical, the other with a sharp shoulder.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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British Museum Semantic Web Collection Online