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)
7002 (none) (none) (none) Collection of beads. Small paste and carnelian also bronze fragments.
7067 (none) 1927,0527.141 (none) Bull. Pendant. Pink steatite. E. [drawing 1:1]
7097 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Duck. Miniature. Frit. Grey. B.
7098 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu. Head of white shell. B. [drawing 1:1]
7131 (none) (none) (none) 64 carnelian, agate and paste beads. Arbitrarily restrung.
7558 (none) 1928,1009.144 (none) Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1]
7563 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Frog. Frit. [faint drawing]
7575 (none) (none) (none) 85 glass? ring beads. Bleached white. With U7624 and 7623. Found with Ccopper right U7567.
7588 (none) (none) (none) 14 beads. Yellow paste ring beads and one lapis ball bead.
7594 (none) 1928,1009.145 (none) Amulet. Ram's head. Shell. White. [drawing 1:1]
7608 (none) (none) (none) 7 bugle beads. Frit. Pale blue.
7621 (none) (none) (none) 7 beads. 6 agate lentoid, 1 carnelian bugle bead. Kassite.
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.
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.
7910 (none) 1928,1009.138 (none) Frog amulet. Lapis lazuli. [drawing 1:1][CARD MISLABELED U.7940B][Arabic notes on back of card] [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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).
7959 (none) 1928,1009.64 (none) Beads of gold and carnelian. Long bugles: 8 gold, 4 carnelian. With them were strung other beads; v. tomb notes.
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.
7963 (none) 1928,1009.103 (none) Beads. Mostly small ball beads of gold (thin leaf over copper), lapis, and a few carnelian (some rings). Apparently forming a single necklace, or two of the same pattern; one gold bead to every 1 or 2 stone according to size. Most of the gold beads were destroyed through the decay and swelling of the copper cores. One string containing the best gold beads made up for exhibition.
7976 (none) 1928,1009.119 (none) Ball bead of black steatite.

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Dress and Personal Ornaments > Miscellaneous Pieces


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