Beads
This category includes small objects pierced for hanging or stringing.
Beads are made of various materials from stones to metals to clay. They are also various sizes and styles. Most common forms are spheres, lentoids, and cylindrical.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 10006 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Double conoids of gold and lapis The larger gold beads are of foil over bitumen, the smaller more solid: the largest are unusually large, both in gold and lapis |
| 10007 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Triangles of 11 gold and 11 lapis |
| 10026 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A set of silver ring pendants, much decayed, strung with carnelian bugles and small lapis beads (found in confusion) |
| 10027 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Leaves (14) Strung with small beads of lapis and carnelian. The order is the normal one: some were found with the beads still in between - 1 small carnelian ring, 2 blue bugles, 1 small carnelian ring. (many of the beads are mixed with U.10026) |
| 10028 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 6 gold composite (triune) beads lentoid probably strung with small lapis lentoids: but found in confusion. Certainly lapis and gold lentoids (small) were used together and were found mixed up on the left side of the coffin where these spacers were also found. |
| 10089 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Double lentoids of lapis and gold See Field Notes |
| 10090 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Large lentoids, 2 lapis, 1 silver, 2 bitumen(broken) NB the carnelian rings probably went between the large beads |
| 10161 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Beads Fluted gold ball on a copper core Rounded double conoid carnelian |
| 10171 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 Beads Glazed double conoids Strung round neck All broken. Majority had perished |
| 10172 | (none) | 1935,0113.435 | (none) | Beads Worn round wrist 5 lapis double conoids; 4 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian double conoid; lapis and carnelian strung alternatively. |
| 10189 | (none) | 1928,1010.681 | (none) | 3 Beads One steatite lentoid; 2 carnelian barrels |
| 10304 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 6 Beads Two carnelian bugles, & 4 crystal ring beads - strung alternatively. |
| 10313 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Bangle Lapis & silver double conoids on wooden cores Minute gold, lapis and silver balls For order of stringing cf. Field Note |
| 10315 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 5 Beads 2 lapis bugles 2 carnelian bugles 1 carnelian diamond. Originally strung with wooden double conoids, all of which had decayed. For order see Field Note. |
| 10356 | (none) | (none) | B17666 | Carnelian beads 2 strings of small barrel beads | |
| 10370 | (none) | 1928,1010.683 | (none) | 9 Beads Lapis double conoids gold balls agate double conoid For order see Field note |
| 10389 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 4 Beads 2 jasper? (one flattened double conoids, one barrel) 2 copper ball beads One copper bead between each jasper bead |
| 10401 | (none) | 1928,1010.174 | (none) | Beads Double conoids of gold & lapis See Field Notes |
| 10403 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads double conoids of silver and lapis Type__ |
| 10408 | (none) | 1928,1010.98 | (none) | Beads 5 gold, 1 lapis, carnelian and agate Restrung not in original order Isin period |
| 10410 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Gold (1), agate and carnelian Isin-Larsa period |
| 10424 | (none) | (none) | B16733 | Beads 3 lapis, 3 gold Unusually large lentoids, facetted | |
| 10425 | (none) | (none) | B17630 | Beads a few gold lentoids & others | |
| 10426A | (none) | (none) | B17629 | [A-B] Beads Disks of lapis set in gold rings, diameter 0025 Probably these were strung up with very small lapis beads of which great numbers were found in the soil (with the ring-set disks) by the side of the box and just above it. |
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