Description (Catalog Card): Beads. Large double conoids of electrum and carnelian and flat lentoids of carnelian and gold: all from one string on the chest of the central figure in the domed chamber.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054      
Material (Catalog Card): Carnelian3     
Material (Catalog Card): Electrum3     
Material (Catalog Card): Gold3     
U Number: 11910     
Object Type: Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Description (Modern): Sting of beads, Carnelian and Gold. 56 beads. 13 Carnelian Flattened Ovoid. 12 Gold Flattened Ovoid. 22 Carnelian Double Conoid. 9 Gold Double Conoid. On display so no measurement.      
Description (Modern): Beads strung in this order: (1 Carnelian Flattened ovoid. 1 gold flattened ovoid)x6. 2 Carnelian flattened ovoid. 1 gold flattened ovoid (3 carnelian double conoid. 1 gold double conoid)x6. 2 carnelian double conoid. 1 gold double conoid. 2 carnelian double conoid. 1 gold flattened ovoid. (1 carnelian flattened ovoid. 1 gold flattened ovoid)x4 1 carnelian flattened ovoid.      
Description (Modern): String of Beads; 54 Beads2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Electrum      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 30-12-562     
Measurement (Weight): 206.702     
Measurement (X): 108cm     
Measurement (X): 1086.002     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[3] 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:51 Page:22 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:51 Page:22 (none)
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