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)
18255 33-35-166 (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Puzuzu head. [drawing]
1559 (none) (none) B15722 Amulet. Small duck. Clay, with traces of green glaze. Pierced vertically for suspension. P.
17860 (none) 1932,1008.188 (none) Amulet. Spread eagle of glazed frit (the glaze all gone). [drawing 1:1]
17730 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Steatite. Head. [drawing 1:1]
18291 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Translucent green steatite.
18234 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. White frit (once glazed? But glaze all perished) A seated calf? [drawing]
17870 32-40-310 (none) (none) Amulet. White shell. In the form of a flying bird (one wing missing) [drawing 1:1]
2509 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. White shell. Lion? Or bull? Roughly carved. [drawing 1:1]
16141A (none) (none) (none) Amulets. Frit. [A-B] A Pair. Miniature clenched fists perforated for suspension. [From Typed Transcript Only] [C] Necklace: Carnelian, lapis, bone, rock crystal, agate, amethyst. [D] Gold finger ring and [E] bone. [F] copper finger ring
16141B (none) (none) (none) Amulets. Frit. [A-B] A Pair. Miniature clenched fists perforated for suspension. [From Typed Transcript Only] [C] Necklace: Carnelian, lapis, bone, rock crystal, agate, amethyst. [D] Gold finger ring and [E] bone. [F] copper finger ring
18693A (none) (none) (none) Amulets. Shell. In the shape of a human hand. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) The open hand. (B) Clenched hand.
18693B (none) (none) (none) Amulets. Shell. In the shape of a human hand.[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] (A) The open hand. (B) Clenched hand.
7976 (none) 1928,1009.119 (none) Ball bead of black steatite.
1263 (none) (none) (none) Barrel-shaped bead of baked clay, pierced lengthwise, and inscribed with 11 lines of a text (partly obliterated) relating to the dues of a temple for a 2 months of the year.
7924 (none) (none) (none) Bead Crystal Cylindrical with truncated conical top. [drawing 1:1]
9997 (none) 1935,0113.434 (none) Bead Small double conoids of silver and lapis
17731 (none) (none) (none) Bead clay. [drawing 1:1]
16264 (none) (none) (none) Bead in form of a couchant lion: carnelian.
6094 (none) 1927,0527.131 (none) Bead necklace. Including agate beads. E.
18692 (none) (none) (none) Bead of clouded pale mauve chalcedony. [drawing]
17237 (none) 1931,1010.76 (none) Bead [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18862 (none) 1935,0112.57 (none) Bead, half of: flattened date-shaped, carnelian, artifcially bleached white all over (the bleaching has penetrated deep into the stone) and then etched with a black pattern. [drawing 1:1]
13763 (none) (none) (none) Bead. Carnelian, with white bleached pattern. [drawing]
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.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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