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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12454 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis = mixed sorts. All collected from the floor of the chamber, SE end, when they were scattered in confusion. |
| 12455 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large lapis bugles and smaller bugles. Found scattered over the SE end of the floor of the chamber. |
| 12456 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold beads. Mixed types. Found scattered over the SE end of the floor of the chamber. |
| 12458 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis, mostly double conoids. Found loose on the chamber floor. |
| 12459C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small gold varia. (A) One length of chain. (B) One piece of plain gold binding. (C) One triangular spacer bead from a dog-collar. [drawing] (D) [D and F] 2 tooth shaped gold beads . [drawing] (E) One gold beech leaf found outside the main door. [additional notes on back of card] [drawing] |
| 12459D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small gold varia. (A) One length of chain. (B) One piece of plain gold binding. (C) One triangular spacer bead from a dog-collar. [drawing] (D) [D and F] 2 tooth shaped gold beads . [drawing] (E) One gold beech leaf found outside the main door. [additional notes on back of card] [drawing] |
| 12459F | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small gold varia. (A) One length of chain. (B) One piece of plain gold binding. (C) One triangular spacer bead from a dog-collar. [drawing] (D) [D and F] 2 tooth shaped gold beads . [drawing] (E) One gold beech leaf found outside the main door. [additional notes on back of card] [drawing] |
| 12460 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Very small lapis ball or or tube-section beads, a very great number found scattered in the soil a little above the bhamber floor: probably from a headdress like that of the 'standard bearer' in PG 775. |
| 12476 | (none) | 1929,1017.245 | (none) | Beads. A string of carnelian balls and gold ribbed balls strung alternately (except in part when 2 gold come together). |
| 12477 | 30-12-572 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A string of flat gold diamond beads, carnelian diamonds small gold balls and small carnelian balls. (restrung as far as possible in the original order). | |
| 12615 | (none) | 1929,1017.477 | (none) | Beads. Forming a bracelet. Small double conoids of twisted gold wire alternating with carnelian rings and bugles. |
| 12622 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver and lapis diamonds, balls and small bugles. 2 large carnelian bugles. 1 greenish (chalcedony?) flat lentoid. |
| 1263 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Barrel-shaped bead of baked clay, pierced lengthwise, and inscribed with 11 lines of a text (partly obliterated) relating to the dues of a temple for a 2 months of the year. |
| 12631 | (none) | 1929,1017.326 | (none) | [A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped). |
| 12635C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A-B] 1) Pair of small spiral copper earrings with thickened lunate ends. [C] 2) Beads: 1 lapis bugle, 1 silver bugle, 1 silver double conoid, 1 carnelian ring bead. |
| 12638E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin. [B] (2) Copper pin. [C] (3) Copper pin. [D] (4) Silver earring spiral coils thickened lunate ends. [E] (5) Beads - minute. Lapis bugles, carnelian rings, lapis lentoids, white paste tristed bugles. |
| 12642 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian bugle and remains of silver bugle on a wooden core. |
| 12662B | (none) | 1929,1017.258 | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin. Straight. Tang head perforated. [B] (2) Beads. Lapis and carnelian lentoids and balls. |
| 12664G | (none) | 1929,1017.496 | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Wooden comb completely broken. [B] (2) Clay bottle, smoked grey ware. [C] (3) Earring - silver and copper intertwined lunate ends. 1 1/2 spiral coils. [D] 1 silver finger ring plain and [E] 1 copper [finger ring]. [F] Lapis cylinder seal. Two enthroned bird men sucking straws from a champagne vase . [G] Small beads. Lapis and silver rings and one large flat square lapis. |
| 12668 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Rock crystal. Lentoid. Paste tube through center. [drawing] |
| 12677B | (none) | 1929,1017.322 | (none) | Group: [A] Cylinder seal lapis lazuli. Geometric decoration. [B] Beads. Carnelian rings and lapis double conoids also 1 mottled marble barrel bead. [C-D] Earrings. Silver. A pair. 1 1/2 spiral coils with thickened lunate ends and [E] 1 copper. [F] Copper finger ring. |
| 12680D | (none) | 1929,1017.311 | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper axe Type XXII. [B] (2) Copper reticule containing manicure tools on ring. Traces of matting on reticule. [C] (3) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Bird headed man and rampant animals. [D] (4) Beads - Worn round forehead? 2 carnelian bugles - 1 lapis lentoid. [E] (5) Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] XXV. [drawing] |
| 12693D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] 1) Copper pin. Straight. Tang head. Type II. [B] 2) Silver wire spiral coil earring. 2 1/2 coils. Broken. [C] And 1 small with thickened ends 1 1/2 coils. [D] Beads, carnelian barrels and lapis balls. [E] Clay offering table. Badly broken. Plan. |
| 12696C | 30-12-587 | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper pin with curled head [Type] VII. [drawing] [B] (2) Silver wire earrings 2 1/2 coils. [C] (3) Silver and lapis lentoid beads strung in alternate pairs [D] (4) Alabaster miniature spill vase [Type] CII [D]. [drawing] | |
| 12698B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Earring. Silver, composite. Three intertwined, one small lunate 1 1/2 coils; second, one end plain, the other as a penannular ring; third 1 1/2 coils of plain silver wire. [B] (2) Beads. 2 carnelian and 1 lapis bugle probably from a frontlet. |
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