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)
8004 (none) 1928,1009.84 (none) Large ball bead of lapis with gold caps. Sphere with ribbed sides.
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.
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.
8018A (none) 1928,1009.81, 1928,1009.89 (none) Beads. Carnelian, agate, lapis and gold. [A] One string was of carnelian and gold. [B] One string of lapis and gold. [C] Agate beads were found touching each other end to end, so should form a string.
8033 (none) 1928,1009.396 (none) Shell bull. Very delicately & boldly carved in white shell. A figure of a bull, facing rt, in exactly the position of the 'Ubaid copper frieze bulls, with the left fore leg bent at the knee and planted on the ground as if the animal were about to rise; the body in profile, the head turned to the front.
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).
8070 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis lazuli. Small conoids, balls, and a few bugles. 130 in all.
8073 (none) (none) (none) Amulet of mother o'pearl Inlaid with 2 spots of lapis of which one has dropped out. [drawing 1:1]
8089A (none) 1928,1009.111 (none) [A-B] Beads. Lapis lazuli (poor quality of stone). Large faceted lentoids. [drawing 1:1]
8099 (none) 1928,1009.392 (none) Beads. Large shell rings. About 002 in diameter. In bad condition.
8110A (none) 1928,1009.109 (none) [A-B] 2 lapis lazuli beads. Large double conoids, facetted. [drawing 1:1]
8110B (none) 1928,1009.110 (none) 2 lapis lazuli beads. Large double conoids, facetted. [drawing 1:1] A & B
8117 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Lapis lazuli. Double conoid in section. Broader at one end than at the other. [drawing 1:1]
8130 (none) (none) (none) String of beads. 23 lapis lazuli. Small double conoids, ribbed barrel beads and bugle beads. 3 Carnelian ring beads.
8137 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 90 lapis lazuli beads. Double conoids. Ball beads and a few lentoids.
8154 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis (& a few carnelian) from 2 parallel strings worn round the neck: see tomb notes.
8159 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small lapis balls etc.
8164 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, carnelian and silver. About 180 in all. The lapis and carnelian are double conoids: some of the silver are the same, some are treble ball heads and some are imitation shells. Strung, silver lapis carnelian lapis silver.
8165 87-28-16 (none) (none) Finger ring. Silver. Filigree work, 6 strands of fine silver wire welded together in the hoop. Also, part of a second similar.
8168 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small lapis and gold: found together and forming one string.
8172 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 7 carnelian, 6 lapis, and gold (4). The gold are seed-pods thus [drawing 1:1]. The carnelian similar but with no central rib, the lapis flat and rectangular and 2 bugles (this last may not belong to this string) : for order of threading see field notes. Found affixed to U.8171. The gold beads have a wooden tube down the middle, 2 leaves of gold being soldered (or cemented) together on either side of this: the string went through the wood.
8177A (none) (none) (none) Beads. A: Carnelian lentoids. B: Small lapis balls with the carnelians is one longer with artificial white bands. For stringing see field notes.
8178 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Three, two of lapis, one of gold. Faceted lentoids of exaggerated size. Found together. [drawing] 1:1

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