Beads
This category includes small objects pierced for hanging or stringing.
Beads are made of various materials from stones to metals to clay. They are also various sizes and styles. Most common forms are spheres, lentoids, and cylindrical.
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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9875 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 13 Carnelian ring beads. Coarsely cut, chipped circumference after the manner of the earliest beads from Al Obaid. 1 very roughly cut flattened double conoid; polished black hematite. Date: before 3500 BC |
| 9889 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 Beads Two carnelian ring beads, 1 lapis lentoid |
| 9920 | (none) | (none) | B17585 | Beads Lapis double conoids and a few silver balls |
| 9921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Silver balls and lapis double conoids. (from the neck) |
| 9930 | (none) | (none) | B17589 | Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver. |
| 9932 | (none) | (none) | B17583 | Beads. 2 carnelian and 2 lapis bugles. | |
| 9935B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead. |
| 9936 | (none) | (none) | B16734 | Beads, etc. From a diadem. 1 large gold lentoid bead; 4 ditto. lapis; and with them fragments of a silver chain. See field notes. |
| 9954 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small lapis, carnelian and paste rings Originally strung in sets of 3 |
| 9960 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Lapis Double conoids |
| 9965 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis. Double conoids. |
| 9985 | (none) | (none) | B17642 | Beads double conoids of gold and lapis small Strung in groups of 4 or 8, in alternate colors | |
| 9999C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver |
| 10006 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Double conoids of gold and lapis The larger gold beads are of foil over bitumen, the smaller more solid: the largest are unusually large, both in gold and lapis |
| 10007 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Triangles of 11 gold and 11 lapis |
| 10026 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A set of silver ring pendants, much decayed, strung with carnelian bugles and small lapis beads (found in confusion) |
| 10027 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Leaves (14) Strung with small beads of lapis and carnelian. The order is the normal one: some were found with the beads still in between - 1 small carnelian ring, 2 blue bugles, 1 small carnelian ring. (many of the beads are mixed with U.10026) |
| 10028 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 6 gold composite (triune) beads lentoid probably strung with small lapis lentoids: but found in confusion. Certainly lapis and gold lentoids (small) were used together and were found mixed up on the left side of the coffin where these spacers were also found. |
| 10089 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Double lentoids of lapis and gold See Field Notes |
| 10090 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Large lentoids, 2 lapis, 1 silver, 2 bitumen(broken) NB the carnelian rings probably went between the large beads |
| 10161 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Beads Fluted gold ball on a copper core Rounded double conoid carnelian |
| 10171 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 Beads Glazed double conoids Strung round neck All broken. Majority had perished |
| 10304 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 6 Beads Two carnelian bugles, & 4 crystal ring beads - strung alternatively. |
| 10313 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Bangle Lapis & silver double conoids on wooden cores Minute gold, lapis and silver balls For order of stringing cf. Field Note |
| 10315 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 5 Beads 2 lapis bugles 2 carnelian bugles 1 carnelian diamond. Originally strung with wooden double conoids, all of which had decayed. For order see Field Note. |
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