8704 | 1928,1009.61

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Description (Catalog Card):	Necklace Consisting of 111 lapis lazuli beads - double conoids 26 gold double conoids Apparently the gold beads were in the centre of the necklace, gold and lapis being alternated.¹
Find Context (Catalog Card):	PG 354 TTF
Material (Catalog Card):	Lapis lazuli³
Material (Catalog Card):	Gold³

U Number:	8704
Museum:	British Museum
Object Type:	Dress and Personal Ornaments >> Neckwear >> Necklaces
Season Number:	05: 1926-1927
Description (Modern):	String of Beads; 135 Beads²
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Metal >> Gold
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony >> Carnelian ²
Museum Number (BM Big Number):	120578
Museum Number (BM Registration Number):	1928,1009.61⁴
Measurement (Weight):	50.30²
Measurement (X):	1270.00²

[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

[4] Data collected by British Museum research team.

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PG/354	(none)	(none)

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Media: 8704 | 1928,1009.61 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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:39 Page:141	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:141	(none)