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) |
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![]() | 13797A | (none) | 1930,1213.16 | (none) | [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis. |
13797B | 31-17-136 | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis. | |
13797C | 31-17-45 | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis. | |
13797D | 31-17-54 | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis. | |
13797E | 31-17-56 | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis. | |
13797F | 31-17-55 | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis. | |
13797G | 31-17-70 | (none) | (none) | [A-G] Beads. Double conoids of gold & (discolored) lapis. | |
![]() | 10593A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Tomb Group A: Beads, lapis, silver and carnelian with one pendant of greenish white stone. [drawing] 1:1 B: Copper pin with lapis ball head, stem broken. C: Silver wire spiral coil earring. D: Cockle shell containing paint. |
![]() | 16258B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] Gold plating, nails and beads. [A] Some small round-headed nails, [B] a quantity of tiny beads & some pieces of thin plain gold plating: [C] also one piece shaped & corrugated, and [drawing 1:1] [D] one complete piece, curved & attached by 2 large gold nails to a wooden core, with lightly embossed pattern. Presumably part of the door decoration. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 9657D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 worked Gold Beads. Double conoids stacked together. Applique filigree work |
![]() | 9657A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 worked Gold Beads Double conoids stacked together. Applique filigree work |
![]() | 9657B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 worked Gold Beads Double conoids stacked together. Applique filigree work |
![]() | 9657C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 worked Gold Beads Double conoids stacked together. Applique filigree work |
![]() | 10592A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads three strings (see Field Notes) mixed up together: lapis silver & carnelian beads A: Lapis double conoids; B: silver lentoids. C: Lapis lentoids with some carnelian rings. |
![]() | 10592B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads three strings (see Field Notes) mixed up together: lapis silver & carnelian beads A: Lapis double conoids; B: silver lentoids. C: Lapis lentoids with some carnelian rings. |
![]() | 10592C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads three strings (see Field Notes) mixed up together: lapis silver & carnelian beads A: Lapis double conoids; B: silver lentoids. C: Lapis lentoids with some carnelian rings. |
![]() | 9999C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver |
![]() | 9999A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver |
![]() | 9999B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver |
![]() | 11839A | (none) | 1929,1017.310 | (none) | [A-C based on museum divisions] Beads Lapis. Lentoids and bugles = probably both belonging to a wreath of silver beech leaves (which were all decayed). [D-E] With these, 2 hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, and [F] a large lunate earring of the Queen Shub-ad type, but in silver: a long silver wire may belong to this. |
![]() | 11839B | (none) | 1929,1017.312 | (none) | [A-C based on museum divisions] Beads Lapis. Lentoids and bugles = probably both belonging to a wreath of silver beech leaves (which were all decayed). [D-E] With these, 2 hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, and [F] a large lunate earring of the Queen Shub-ad type, but in silver: a long silver wire may belong to this. |
![]() | 11839C | (none) | 1929,1017.315 | (none) | [A-C based on museum divisions] Beads Lapis. Lentoids and bugles = probably both belonging to a wreath of silver beech leaves (which were all decayed). [D-E] With these, 2 hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, and [F] a large lunate earring of the Queen Shub-ad type, but in silver: a long silver wire may belong to this. |
![]() | 8083B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two beads of glazed frit. Originally blue, now bleached. Large striated or ribbed beads, one spherical, the other with a sharp shoulder. |
8083A | (none) | (none) | B16837 | [A-B] Two beads Of glazed frit. Originally blue, now bleached. Large striated or ribbed beads, one spherical, the other with a sharp shoulder. | |
![]() | 8274A | (none) | 1928,1009.90 | (none) | [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 . |
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