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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8210 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large balls of lapis. See field notes: almost certainly strung together with no silver beads between. They seem to be connected with the silver flower ornament (U.8212) and perhaps formed a chaplet round the head from which the flowers rose. |
| 8211 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A large number of lapis and carnelian beads, now all mixed together, but originally forming a number of separate strings for which see field notes. |
| 8224.1 | (none) | (none) | B16809 | [.1-.2] Beads. Lapis and carnelian, mixed small types, ball, lentoid and bugle, and a few ribbed ball beads of gold. | |
| 8229 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold double conoids; lapis and carnelian (lapis double conoids, carnelian mostly rings and 1 big faceted lapis lentoid). |
| 8250 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Mixed lapis and shell, 29 in all, 28 found together in a basket, 1 biggish lapis ribbed ball formed apart and possibly belonging to the copper pin U.8248. |
| 8266 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 beads. 2 carnelian double conoids. 1 _. |
| 8267 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 49 in all - double conoid lapis and carnelian, 1 small silver ball bead, and a number of minute carnelian ring beads. Also 2 gold double conoids. |
| 8270 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Leaf pendant. Gold. Very slightly concave. Slight rib down middle. Thin handle at top folded over and rolled so as to form three loops for attachment to a chain. [drawing] 1:1 |
| 8271 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold beads. 27 in number. Double conoids, bugle beads, minute ring beads and a minute gold spacer rectangular in section perforated 4 times and broken at one end. |
| 8274B | (none) | (none) | B16825 | [A-B] Necklace. About 250 beads, mostly small. 1 large faceted lapis lazuli. 18 double conoid lapis. 14 lentoid lapis. 18 bugle and double conoid carnelian. 4 or 5 minute gold beads. The rest small carnelian ring beads and lapis ring and ball beads, a few ribbed barrel lapis beads. Fragment of lapis inlay with incised concentric areas [drawing]. Arbitrarily made up into two strings . | |
| 8295 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 beads. 1 double conoid lapis lazuli. 1 double conoid silver. |
| 8310 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. One carnelian, a few lapis, and a number of very small shell rings. |
| 8364 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A small set of mixed carnelian and lapis lazuli, all found together at the neck: see field notes. |
| 8375 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large. One carnelian, one ball lapis and 6 diamond-shaped flat lapis beads; all found close together except the ball bead which lay apart. (NB the last had a thread through it so was not a pin-head as suggested in the field notes) |
| 8376A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis bugles, small, and carnelian rings. These went to complete the triple collar with silver rings attached. See field notes item 8. |
| 8376B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large lapis and carnelian. Forming a separate string. See field notes item 8. |
| 8376C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Silver. Some quadruple tubes from dog collar string, large lentoids which went with the larger lapis lentoids (U.8376B) and smaller beads. |
| 8376D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis lazuli double conoids, and 2 carnelians. For stringing, see field notes. |
| 8377 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads etc. Large silver rings to which are attached spacers pierced by 3 holes: between these were set lapis bugles flanked by carnelian rings: see field notes. Part of the chain preserved as found. |
| 8391 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis and carnelian. The former mostly double conoids and rings, the carnelian bugles, conoids, faceted bugles and rings. |
| 8400 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 14 in all, carnelian and lapis. Found by the neck. |
| 8403 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 73 beads. Roughly shaped lapis ball beads and a few carnelian ring beads. |
| 8409 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 11 beads. Lapis double conoids, bugle carnelian and gold beads. |
| 8421 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 35 beads Mostly minute lapis lazuli ring beads, 2 bugle lapis, 2 bugle carnelian, 2 carnelian ball beads |
| 8446A | (none) | (none) | B16803 | 178 beads Lapis double conoids, barrel beads and bugle beads Carnelian barrel beads 4 minute gold beads Originally these formed [A-C] 3 necklaces apparently worn round the neck one above the other. The bottom necklace consisted of the larger lapis beads, the necklace above of smaller lapis. The top string of lapis, carnelian and gold. Gold and carnelian were always next to one another, and between each gold and carnelian apparently 2 lapis. |
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