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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10806A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. A. Beads. small lapis lentoids and some silver. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head Type V |
| 10807A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group A. Beads= triangular type with 7 ridges 11 lapis and 5 gold. B. [B, D-E] 3 earrings, silver wire spiral coils C. Silver pin with striated lapis ball head, broken Type V |
| 10808A | (none) | (none) | B16757 | Tomb Group A. Beads: small lapis double conoids. B. Beads: small white shell rings C. Copper pin with lapis head, broken Type V |
| 10808B | (none) | (none) | B16757 | Tomb Group A. Beads: small lapis double conoids. B. Beads: small white shell rings C. Copper pin with lapis head, broken Type V |
| 10811B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group A. Silver wire spiral coil earring. B. Beads: 2 lapis & 2 silver lentoids with fragments of twisted silver wire from a frontlet. |
| 10815B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group A: Frontlet of large beads, lapis and silver with carnelian rings. B: Beads: lapis double conoids. C: Silver pin with lapis ball head, Type V. D: [D-E] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings |
| 10816A | (none) | (none) | B16782 | Tomb Group. (A) Beads from neck: gold double conoids, carnelian rings, lapis double conoids forming top string. Middle string: lapis double conoids. Bottom string: silver double conoids. (B) Fragments of decayed silver earrings. (C) Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. (D) decayed miniature clay vase, pinkish drab friable surface. (E) [E and G] Pair of cockle shells, blue and greenish paint mixed. (F) Five or six shell rings. | |
| 10816F | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. (A) Beads from neck: gold double conoids, carnelian rings, lapis double conoids forming top string. Middle string: lapis double conoids. Bottom string: silver double conoids. (B) Fragments of decayed silver earrings. (C) Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. (D) decayed miniature clay vase, pinkish drab friable surface. (E) [E and G] Pair of cockle shells, blue and greenish paint mixed. (F) Five or six shell rings. |
| 10818A | (none) | (none) | B17590 | Tomb Group A. A few odd beads round neck; decayed silver double conoids, one or two carnelian rings. B. [B and F] Pair of cockle shells corroded together, containing black paint. C. Decayed copper pin, rectangular in section. Type III variant. D. Few decayed shell rings worn on breast, probably originally a belt. E. Fragments of silver earrings | |
| 10818D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group A. A few odd beads round neck; decayed silver double conoids, one or two carnelian rings. B. [B and F] Pair of cockle shells corroded together, containing black paint. C. Decayed copper pin, rectangular in section. Type III variant. D. Few decayed shell rings worn on breast, probably originally a belt. E. Fragments of silver earrings |
| 10820E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. (A)[A and G] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. 1-broken and part missing. (B) [B and H] 2 cockle shells with green paint (both broken) (C) Broken silver finger ring, 4 strands of wire, the 2 middle strands spiral. Part missing. (D) Large shell of the type used to serve as a lamp. Badly broken. (E) Few silver double conoids, a few lapis and remains of glazed frit ring beads. (F) A copper pin with a copper ball head. Badly broken. Type V. |
| 10824A.1 | (none) | (none) | B16779 | Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.] | |
| 10829A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. A. Beads. Lapis and silver double conoids. B. Copper pin with lapis ball head, broken. Type V. C. Earring, silver wire spiral coil. |
| 10831A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group A. Beads: lapis double conoids and some silver. B. Silver pin with lapis head. Type V. C.[C and E] 2 silver earrings, wire spiral coils. D. finger ring of very thin gold wire. [struck out: "E."] |
| 10832A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. (A) Beads. Lapis and silver and 1 - carnelian. (B) [B-C] 2 silver earrings wire spiral coils |
| 10834A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. (A) Beads. Lapis lentoids and carnelian rings. (B) [B and D] 2 silver earrings wire spiral coils. (C) Cockle shell containing paint. |
| 10840 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads One fairly large carnelian lentoid, carnelian rings, gold balls, and a few dark steatite lentoids |
| 10879 | (none) | (none) | B17063 | Beads From the belt Plain short bugles of lapis, gold and carnelian, and minute ball beads in the same material: see Field Notes. | |
| 10880 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A set of large lentoids found on the top of the thigh bone, possibly connected with the belt but not in the same character: 4 lapis, 4 gold, 2 facetted carnelian. |
| 10889 | (none) | (none) | B16735 | Beads Big double conoids of gold (plated) lapis and carnelian For order see Field Notes | |
| 10951 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large lapis lentoids. They seemed to form a string round the upper part of the head, to keep in place the gold flower ornament. |
| 10975 | (none) | (none) | B17046 | Beads. A string of decorated gold pipe beads, 22mm, long, with small gold balls,etc . 21 tubular carnelian, 2 gold, 3 lapis. 27 gold balls (17050 = U 10975-79, 80-81). REACCESSIONED AS 83-7-1. |
| 10976A | 83-7-1.1 | (none) | B17046a | Beads. String of large gold and lapis double conoids, alternating. REACCESSIONED AS 83-7-1. Pu Abis cloak. | |
| 10977A | 83-7-1.5 | (none) | B17287 | Beads. Large bugles of agate with lapis balls between. |
| 10978 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. String of gold and lapis balls alternating. REACCESSIONED AS 83-7-1. |
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