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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 14215 | (none) | (none) | B8951 | Beads. Carnelian cylindrical; lapis barrels. |
| (none) | 30-12-402 | (none) | B18121 | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17690 | (none) | |
| 10594A | (none) | (none) | B17679 | Tomb Group. (A) Beads. Small lapis double conoids and some silver. [B-C] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. | |
| 9783 | (none) | (none) | B17677 | Beads 14 gold ring spacers and a quantity of small lapis beads and carnelian rings: for order see Field Notes. With them are mixed the smaller lapis beads mentioned in the Field Notes as probably belonging to the headdress. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 9784 | (none) | (none) | B17668 | Beads 1 Small gold 6 small lapis; and a large number of carnelian rings, all strung up together: see Field Notes. |
| 8010 | (none) | (none) | B17667 | Beads. Carnelian. Mostly minute ring beads. With them a few small balls etc. |
| 10356 | (none) | (none) | B17666 | Carnelian beads 2 strings of small barrel beads | |
| 9650 | (none) | (none) | B17665 | Beads. Lapis, small double conoids and lentoids. | |
| 9780B | (none) | (none) | B17655 | Gold Chain The usual type with double-twisted links giving a square section |
| 9985 | (none) | (none) | B17642 | Beads double conoids of gold and lapis small Strung in groups of 4 or 8, in alternate colors | |
| 11147.2 | (none) | (none) | B17632 | Beads. Lapis bugles and carnelian rings being the remains of a headdress (the rest had been plundered). |
| 10425 | (none) | (none) | B17630 | Beads a few gold lentoids & others | |
| 10426A | (none) | (none) | B17629 | [A-B] Beads Disks of lapis set in gold rings, diameter 0025 Probably these were strung up with very small lapis beads of which great numbers were found in the soil (with the ring-set disks) by the side of the box and just above it. | |
| 8009 | (none) | (none) | B17622 | White shell beads. All small, mostly minute: several thousands of them, with one white spacer. | |
| 11211 | (none) | (none) | B17599 | Beads. (7). 1 Flattened steatite double conoid-grey. 1 carnelian double conoid. 1 black steatite bead with incised markings; shaped like a truncated cone. 2 carnelian ring beads. 1 gold ring bead. 1 grey steatite bead square in section - tubular. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 9656B | (none) | (none) | B17597 | Beads Gold. Large double conoids, small double conoids, tubular beads, barrel beads, fluted ball beads, flattened double conoids, double conoids of spiral wire, circles of spiral wire, 2 elongated double conoids; 4 ring spacers for 3 strings, gold bar spacers (square in section) for 20 strings, 3 gold leaves with spacers for 2 strings. Carnelian. Barrel beads, ball beads, bugles, double conoids, ring beads, 1 worked barrel bead with white pattern, flattened tabloid with gold suspender. Lapis. Large double conoids, small double conoids, fluted ball beads, double conoid with gold suspender for 2 strings. | |
| 9703 | (none) | (none) | B17591 | Lead? and copper specimens Misshapen lumps | |
| 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 | |
| 9930 | (none) | (none) | B17589 | Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver. |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B17587 | (none) | |
| 9920 | (none) | (none) | B17585 | Beads Lapis double conoids and a few silver balls |
| 9590 | (none) | (none) | B17584 | 3 Beads 1 broken carnelian lentoid 1 silver double conoid 1 copper double conoid Lentoid carnelian in middle |
| 9932 | (none) | (none) | B17583 | Beads. 2 carnelian and 2 lapis bugles. | |
| 10789 | (none) | (none) | B17567 | Beads Forming a bangle [struck out: "In center large flattened elliptical shaped agate bead"] Gold balls, carnelian rings and barrels & lapis barrels |
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