8620 | 1928,1009.83
| Description (Catalog Card): | Beads. Carnelian double conoids, and a few silver ditto, large. The silver much decayed.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | TTE PG 337 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Silver3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Carnelian3 |
| U Number: | 8620 |
| Object Type: | Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Miscellaneous Pieces >> Beads |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Description (Modern): | String of Beads; 20 Beads2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Silver |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold 2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli 2 |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 120600 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1928,1009.83 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 69.702 |
| Measurement (X): | 335.002 |
| [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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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/337 | The earliest of the royal graves found, it was identified as such after the criteria for royal graves was established. This grave appeared in Trial Trench E and was not well mapped, but reportedly contained remains of a mudbrick wall that Woolley later interpreted as the destroyed tomb chamber associated with a death pit. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:56 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:56 | (none) |
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