Description (Catalog Card): Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054 C2     
Material (Catalog Card): Lapis lazuli4     
Material (Catalog Card): Frit4     
U Number: 11744B     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Description (Modern): String of Lapis beads. 184 beads measuring 452mm long. 5 Lapis disk Less than 1xless than 1xless than 1. 2 Carnelian disk less than 1x1x1. 147 Lapis ovoid 1x1x1. 28 Lapis Cylinder 1xless than 1xless than 1. 2 Frit?disk less than 1xless than 1xless than 1.     
Description (Modern): Strung in this order. 3 lapis disks. 1 carnelian disk. 23 lapis ovoid. 1 frit?disk. 20 lapis ovoid. 1 frit?disk. 16 lapis cylinder. 16 lapis ovoid. 1 lapis cylinder. 9 lapis ovoid. 1 lapis cylinder .20 lapis ovoid. 1 lapis cylinder .13 lapis ovoid. 1 lapis cylinder. 13 lapis ovoid. 6 lapis cylinder. 8 lapis ovoid. 2 lapis cylinder. 25 lapis ovoid. 1 carnelian disk. 2 lapis disk.      
Description (Modern): String of Beads; 178 Beads1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Glass and Related Material >> Frit 3     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian 1     
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 30-12-640     
Measurement (Weight): 4.201     
Measurement (X): 446.001     
[1] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[2] NW Corner
[3] Material identification uncertain
[4] 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:99 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:50 Page:99 (none)
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