Gold

Gold is a metal that is solid in standard conditions, and appears as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits. It has very high malleability, which means it can be hammered and cast very thin without breaking. It is also resistant to corrosion and its bright yellow color and high luster led to it being in high demand. It can be used as material for stand alone objects like vessels or jewelry, and because of its malleability can also be used to cover objects with a thin sheet of gold.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
8097	(none)	(none)	B16792	Beads. Very long bugles, 1 gold, 2 lapis, 3 carnelian, one of the latter facetted, & 4 small silver & 3 small gold balls. For original order see field notes.
8098	(none)	1928,1009.162	(none)	Ear-ring? (or finger ring). A plain circlet of gold wire, the ends thickened & overlapping by half the circle. Broken.
8116	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian, lapis, & gold beads. 47 double conoid gold beads. 12 ribbed ball gold beads. 184 double conoid lapis lazuli. 14 lentoid carnelians. 1 double conoid agate bead. Strung apparently in the following order: 4 or 5? lapis. 4 or 5? gold. 4 or 5? lapis. 1 carnelian. 4 or 5 lapis. 4 or 5 gold. 1 carnelian. etc. In the middle the large double conoid agate bead. 1 gold ball bead with 4 or 3? gold conoid.
8120A	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 gold rings. Each consists of a single piece of wire twisted round 4 times. [A & B]
8120B	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 gold rings. Each consists of a single piece of wire twisted round 4 times. [A & B]
8127	(none)	(none)	B16795	Necklace. 158 lapis lazuli double conoids. 51 gold double conoids. 1 double conoid facetted gold bead. [drawing] not to scale. Beads apparently strung in the following order. 3 small lapis. 1 large lapis. 3 small lapis. 2 gold beads. 3 small lapis. 1 large lapis. 3 small lapis. 2 gold beads.
8128	(none)	1928,1009.168	(none)	Gold ring In 3 coils
8162	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver pin with fluted ball head of lapis. Capped with gold. There is a hole through the top end of the shaft and affixed against one end of the hole is a small carnelian ring bead. It looks as if a string had been passed through the hole with a head at the end of it to prevent its slipping out; in that case, the pin must have acted as a true toggle. [Type] V.
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.
8173	(none)	(none)	B16686	Gold diadem. Thin gold: long strip with rounded ends. Thin gold with sewing-holes at each end and in the middle : along the edge very small dots in relief. The whole field is occupied by a scene rendered by impressed outlines, worked from the front onto a mould with incised design. Scene of animals and men. (see separate description).
8178	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Three, two of lapis, one of gold. Faceted lentoids of exaggerated size. Found together. [drawing] 1:1
8209A	(none)	(none)	B16832A	[A-B] Ear-rings. Gold. Each made of 2 1/2 spiral turns of gold wire: found one on each side of the skull against the ear.
8212	(none)	(none)	B16790	Flower head ornament in silver, lapis and gold. The whole flower is silver, a flat truncated plate of thin metal on a fairly solid stem: on the end of each of the five petals is a ball of lapis capped with gold. Two lapis beads are corroded on to the end of the stem and may belong there (see U.8210). There was certainly a second similar flower on the other side of the head (this one rose from the right ear) but it was all broken up.
8224.1	(none)	(none)	B16809	[.1-.2] Beads. Lapis and carnelian, mixed small types, ball, lentoid and bugle, and a few ribbed ball beads of gold.
8226A	(none)	(none)	B16730	[A] Silver pin with plain ball head of lapis capped with gold. The shaft is pierced just below the head: [B] the 7 beads found just by it may have been fixed to the pin by this hole. The beads are catalogued with the pin. See field notes. [Type] V
8229	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Gold double conoids; lapis and carnelian (lapis double conoids, carnelian mostly rings and 1 big faceted lapis lentoid).
8264	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 40 blue glazed ring beads. 1 lentoid carnelian. 1 double conoid gold bead. 1 rock crystal ring bead.
8267	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 49 in all - double conoid lapis and carnelian, 1 small silver ball bead, and a number of minute carnelian ring beads. Also 2 gold double conoids.
8269	(none)	(none)	B16685	Bull pendant. Gold. Reclining bull. Body in profile - bearded head turned to the left originally there were 4 small gold beads tied to right side of body for attachment to a chain; only two of these now remain.
8270	(none)	(none)	(none)	Leaf pendant. Gold. Very slightly concave. Slight rib down middle. Thin handle at top folded over and rolled so as to form three loops for attachment to a chain. [drawing] 1:1
8271	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold beads. 27 in number. Double conoids, bugle beads, minute ring beads and a minute gold spacer rectangular in section perforated 4 times and broken at one end.
8272	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold ring.
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 .