Combination of different minerals in order to produce different colors.  

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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)
8327I (none) (none) (none) [A-L] Cockle shells. 12 in all. Containing green and other paints.
8327J (none) (none) (none) [A-L] Cockle shells. 12 in all. Containing green and other paints.
8327K (none) (none) (none) [A-L] Cockle shells. 12 in all. Containing green and other paints.
8327L (none) (none) (none) [A-L] Cockle shells. 12 in all. Containing green and other paints.
8580B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Cockle shells. 2, containing green and black paint.
14001B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of cockle shells containing yellow ochre paint and a second containing green.
10818F (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group A. A few odd beads round neck; decayed silver double conoids, one or two carnelian rings. B. [B and F] Pair of cockle shells corroded together, containing black paint. C. Decayed copper pin, rectangular in section. Type III variant. D. Few decayed shell rings worn on breast, probably originally a belt. E. Fragments of silver earrings
(none) 30-12-110 (none) B17829 (none)
13559B 31-16-542A (none) (none) [A-AN] Cockle shells. 30 to 40. Faint traces of paint, greenish, yellow ochre, brown, red.
3222B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Two cakes of red paint.
11949C (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Stone Bowls. White limestone (one smashed) One was inverted over the other and between them was a [C] cochle shell containing light green paint Type XXIII
8345A.2 (none) 1928,1009.416 (none) [A.1 and A.2] 2 cockle shells. Containing green paint.
10412 (none) 1928,1010.1 (none) Harp The upright of wood with gold cap, bound below with gold and with a bitumen shoe: in the upright are the keys, copper nails with gilt heads. The body has disappeared, but there was a vertical border of gold and lapis along the edge. On the body stood a wooden sounding-box, the edge inlaid with shell having patterns in red paint and lapis. The head of the harp, in front, was a gold bulls head with eyes, hair, and beard of lapis. Found in very bad condition, all the wood gone and only the decoration left, but that virtually in its original position
10932A (none) 1928,1010.14 (none) [A-B] Gold Cockle-shells. Pair. modeled on the real, the ribs rendered by engraved lines. Inside one is green paint. [drawing]
10966C (none) 1928,1010.230 (none) Cockle-shells. Containing green and white paint, of unusually large size, the biggest being 145mm, across.
10966D (none) 1928,1010.231 (none) Cockle-shells. Containing green and white paint, of unusually large size, the biggest being 145mm, across.
10706 (none) 1928,1010.282 (none) 2 cockle shells One containing black paint
9989 (none) 1928,1010.295 (none) Cockle Shell Containing green paint
12069B (none) 1929,1017.292 (none) Group: (A) Beads. lapis lazuli double conoids; silver double conoids. (B) Cockle shell (broken) containing green paint. (C) Copper pin: hopeless condition.
14001A (none) 1930,1213.390 (none) [A-B] Pair of cockle shells containing yellow ochre paint and a second containing green.
13559A (none) 1930,1213.395 (none) [A-AN] Cockle shells. 30 to 40. Faint traces of paint, greenish, yellow ochre, brown, red.
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