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)
1283 (none) (none) (none) Clay duck. (head missing) Like U.1280.
1284 (none) 1924,0920.50 (none) Stone Janus-head. Red stone. Beardless, flat-featured face, (pierced vertically for suspension) [drawing 1:1]
1288 (none) 1924,0920.399 (none) Clay rosette. Fragment of drab clay. Like U.1286.
1359 (none) (none) (none) Shell amulet. In form of a left hand; pierced at wrist for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1396A (none) (none) (none) Beads. 3 strings made up from single horde: viz: A. 53 large beads. B. Many small beads and beads like miniature implements. C. Mainly small beads.
1396B (none) 1924,0920.48 (none) Beads. 3 strings made up from single horde: viz: A. 53 large beads. B. Many small beads and beads like miniature implements. C. Mainly small beads.
1396C (none) (none) (none) Beads. 3 strings made up from single horde: viz: A. 53 large beads. B. Many small beads and beads like miniature implements. C. Mainly small beads.
1439A (none) 1927,1003.234 (none) Shell amulet. Lion couchant. Pierced for suspension.
1464 (none) (none) (none) Small clay model, apparently of a dog crouching on top of a box: perhaps used as a pendant charm.
1555 (none) 1924,0920.51 (none) Amulet. Hematite. Recumbant cat; pierced for suspension, with holes for inlay eyes. [drawing 1:1]
1558 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Cross. White chert. Perhaps originally glazed; pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1621 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Pig's head. Pierced between ears for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1637 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. large bugles and ball beads, frit, originally blue glazed, now bleached white.: 36 in all.
1638 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (32) Small bugle or lentoid beads and balls; once glazed, now bleached white; the former had marbled patterns in different colors.
1639 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (40) Restrung from loose beads. Carnelian rings and lentoids or bugles of carnelian, agate, onyx, etc.
1640 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (36) Ball beads of carnelian and rock crystal with cat's eye center.
1641 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. (39) Mixed shapes in carnelian, rock crystal, lapis lazuli, etc., with central bead of lapis wound round with gold wire.
1642 (none) (none) (none) Beads (10) Carnelian, agate, etc., found together.
1643 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very small gold ball beads, some plain, some fluted; found all together, with a few small lapis and carnelian beads. Sixty strung together, others loose. (purchased)
1644 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Loose beads from Ur, not strung together.
1661 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Mixed set, carnelian, shell, agate, etc., and one large gold bead. Brought in together.
1716 (none) (none) (none) Frit ornament. Pectoral, like U.1715 but smaller, broken at one end.
2509 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. White shell. Lion? Or bull? Roughly carved. [drawing 1:1]
2531 (none) (none) (none) Carved shell head. Male, shaven. Neck pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
2534 (none) (none) (none) Carved shell mask. Mother-of-pearl. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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British Museum Semantic Web Collection Online