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)
8592 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis and carnelian balls Strung two of each alternately
8602 (none) (none) (none) Beads Very small lapis balls
8603 (none) (none) (none) Beads Lapis double conoids etc 1 long gold facetted lentoid 1 carnelian double conoid, large
8614 (none) (none) B16829 Beads. 3 Gold squares 33 x 20mm 3 lapis diamonds [drawing] strung together. (v. field notes) and probably joined on to the cylinder seal U.8615.
8620 (none) 1928,1009.83 (none) Beads. Carnelian double conoids, and a few silver ditto, large. The silver much decayed.
8621 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small lapis, with a few silver: strung together.
8622 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Silver ring spacers with between them small beads of silver, lapis and carnelian The silver beads in very bad condition. Order thus [reference to drawing] see field notes. [drawing]
8644 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Bugles of lapis (and hematite?). Silver beads and a few carnelian rings. For order see field notes.
8647 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis lentoids, and one or two carnelian rings.
8653 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 10 gold, 10 silver, and 3 carnelian. Found in a group apparently preserving the order in which they were sewn, as bead embroidery, onto a garment: the small silver beads which completed the design were too decayed to be kept. See field notes. see drawing.
8657 (none) 1928,1009.79 (none) Beads. Lentoids, 1 gold, 2 carnelian, 2 lapis and 10 small lapis balls, strung as a bracelet with 2 small beads between each pair of larger ones.
8659 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small balls of carnelian and gold Strung alternately 10 of each
8667 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis, carnelian, 1 chalcedony, 1 silver disk bead (broken) and two or three gold plated beads in bad condition. See field notes.
8669 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 2 large carnelian, 2 ditto lapis, and some copper beads. See field notes.
8670 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Crystal, gold plated, lapis and carnelian, and one agate with gold caps. See field notes.
8686 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot of lapis, carnelian, steatite, sard, etc. from a single string.
8687 (none) (none) B16961 Beads. Large lentoids. 2 lapis, 1 gold, 1 carnelian, and a broken carnelian lentoid: with these small carnelian rings strung between the large.
8689A (none) (none) B16956 Gold beads. Double conoids. Originally strung with the lapis beads U.8689B. 36 in all.
8689B (none) (none) B16956 Beads. Lapis lazuli. Double conoids. Strung with the gold beads U.8689A.
8716 (none) (none) B17031 12 lapis lazuli beads Double conoids, ring beads, and one thus [drawing] and 1 discoid bead
8719 (none) (none) (none) 4 carnelian beads Flattened double conoids
8723 (none) (none) (none) 5 beads. 1 silver lentoid. 2 facetted double conoid lapis. 1 double conoid baked clay. 1 bugle bead baked clay.
8735A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 lapis beads. Double conoid. Facetted. [Apparently unrelated notes on back, U. numbers associated with PG.286]
8738 (none) (none) B16849 Conical bead. Lapis lazuli. Perforated vertically and horizontally in 4 places. 3 triangles engraved upon it - in each triangle 3 lines parallel to the base. [drawing]
8753 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis and silver.

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