11743K | 1929,1017.274

Technique:	Manufacture >> Handmade >> Carved ¹
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Pierced/Perforated/Bored ¹
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Polished ¹

Description (Catalog Card):	Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
Find Context (Catalog Card):	PG 1054 C³
Material (Catalog Card):	lapis lazuli⁴
Material (Catalog Card):	Carnelian⁴
Material (Catalog Card):	Gold⁴

U Number:	11743K
Object Type:	Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads
Museum:	British Museum
Season Number:	07: 1928-1929
Culture/Period:	Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDIIIB
Description (Modern):	String of 67, double-cone shaped, lapis lazuli beads.¹
Description (Modern):	String of Beads; 66 Beads²
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 (BM Big Number):	122462
Museum Number (BM Registration Number):	1929,1017.274
Measurement (Length):	395⁵
Measurement (Diameter):	5⁶
Measurement (Length):	397.00²
Measurement (Weight):	13.50²

[1] Data collected by British Museum research team.

[2] Aubrey Baadsgaard, Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).

[3] NW Corner

[4] Material as described by Woolley

[5] Length of strung beads

[6] Average bead