Description (Catalog Card): Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054 C4     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis Lazuli5     
Material (Catalog Card): Carnelian5     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold5     
U Number: 11743A     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Description (Modern): String of 20 lapis, carnelian and gold beads, possibly a necklace reaching 328mm in length. There are 10 Lapis fluted ovoid beads measuring 5-7mmx4mmx4mm. There are 5 Carnelian Cylinder breads measureing 29-41mmx5x5mm. There are 5 gold fluted ovoid beads measuring 7x7x7. 2     
Description (Modern): The beads are strung in this order. 1 Lapis Fluted . (1 carnelian cylinder. 1 lapis fluted ovoid. 1 gold fluted ovoid. 1 lapis fluted ovoid)x4. 1 carnelian cylinder. 1 gold fluted ovoid. 1 lapis fluted ovoid. 2     
Description (Modern): Brims; 5 Beads3     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 30-12-449     
Measurement (Weight): 25.703     
Measurement (X): 339.003     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] modern
[3] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[4] NW Corner
[5] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia 2008 Baadsgaard, Aubrey (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:98 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:98 (none)
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