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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16351B | (none) | 1931,1010.125 | (none) | [A-B] Calcite Beads. A pair. Lentoid-Lozenge-shaped in section. One end of second bead missing. [drawing 1:1] |
| 10701B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Copper Wrist Bangles Single coil Ends unattached E |
| 9863D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Gold Chains. [C] 1 silver chain. (badly broken, poor condition) [D] 1 large facetted gold lentoid base; [E] 4 large facetted lapis lentoid beads; Gold chains, normal type with double twisted links giving a square section. Silver chain similar. Worn round the head. For details see Field Note. |
| 9863E | (none) | (none) | B16907 | [A-B] 2 Gold Chains. [C] 1 silver chain. (badly broken, poor condition) [D] 1 large facetted gold lentoid base; [E] 4 large facetted lapis lentoid beads; Gold chains, normal type with double twisted links giving a square section. Silver chain similar. Worn round the head. For details see Field Note. | |
| 9356C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Gold Pendants And lapis and carnelian beads Gold pendants - common type - plain gold rings set with 4 spiral cones of gold wire and attached to a gold foil spacer for 3 strings. Also, a few lapis beads, double conoids, bugles, barrel beads. 1 - banded sard and 3 - small carnelian. All confused. |
| 8735A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 lapis beads. Double conoid. Facetted. [Apparently unrelated notes on back, U. numbers associated with PG.286] |
| 8735B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 lapis beads. Double conoid. Facetted. [Apparently unrelated notes on back, U. numbers associated with PG.286] |
| 12196A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Lapis beads. Large facetted lentoids. |
| 12196B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Lapis beads. Large facetted lentoids. |
| 8110A | (none) | 1928,1009.109 | (none) | [A-B] 2 lapis lazuli beads. Large double conoids, facetted. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16351A | 31-43-167 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] A pair of calcite beads. Lentoid-lozenge-shaped in section. One end of second bead missing. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 9124A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Beads 2 Long facetted conoids. One Lapis, 1- silver over a bitumen core. [drawing] [C] Also, a silver earring [drawing] |
| 9124B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Beads 2 Long facetted conoids. One Lapis, 1- silver over a bitumen core. [drawing] [C] Also, a silver earring [drawing] |
| 10721A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Beads 2 strings Silver balls and Lapis double conoids. For Order See Field Notes. |
| 10721B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Beads 2 strings Silver balls and Lapis double conoids. For Order See Field Notes. |
| 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. | |
| 10426B | (none) | 1928,1010.214 | (none) | [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. |
| 8089A | (none) | 1928,1009.111 | (none) | [A-B] Beads. Lapis lazuli (poor quality of stone). Large faceted lentoids. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8089B | (none) | 1928,1009.112 | (none) | [A-B] Beads. Lapis lazuli (poor quality of stone). Large faceted lentoids. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17966B | 32-40-248 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Beads. Bone, date-shaped and elliptical. 2 spacers. Carnelian, balls, rings, elliptical, double conoid. | |
| 16657C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Earrings, pair. Silver(?) with pendants in shape of bunches of grapes. Normal Persian type - 5 bunches from each ring. [C] Also a few beads, glass paste balls, and small carnelian rings and lentoids. |
| 8274A | (none) | 1928,1009.90 | (none) | [A-B] Necklace. About 250 beads, mostly small. 1 large faceted lapis lazuli. 18 double conoid lapis. 14 lentoid lapis. 18 bugle and double conoid carnelian. 4 or 5 minute gold beads. The rest small carnelian ring beads and lapis ring and ball beads, a few ribbed barrel lapis beads. Fragment of lapis inlay with incised concentric areas [drawing]. Arbitrarily made up into two strings . |
| 8274B | (none) | (none) | B16825 | [A-B] Necklace. About 250 beads, mostly small. 1 large faceted lapis lazuli. 18 double conoid lapis. 14 lentoid lapis. 18 bugle and double conoid carnelian. 4 or 5 minute gold beads. The rest small carnelian ring beads and lapis ring and ball beads, a few ribbed barrel lapis beads. Fragment of lapis inlay with incised concentric areas [drawing]. Arbitrarily made up into two strings . | |
| 8083A | (none) | (none) | B16837 | [A-B] Two beads Of glazed frit. Originally blue, now bleached. Large striated or ribbed beads, one spherical, the other with a sharp shoulder. | |
| 8083B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two beads of glazed frit. Originally blue, now bleached. Large striated or ribbed beads, one spherical, the other with a sharp shoulder. |
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