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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7131 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 64 carnelian, agate and paste beads. Arbitrarily restrung. |
| 7507 | (none) | (none) | B16826 | 12 duck beads. White paste. All pierced doubly. One fragmentary. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7575 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 85 glass? ring beads. Bleached white. With U7624 and 7623. Found with Ccopper right U7567. |
| 7588 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 14 beads. Yellow paste ring beads and one lapis ball bead. |
| 7608 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 7 bugle beads. Frit. Pale blue. |
| 7618 | (none) | (none) | B16823 | 7 ball beads, 2 lentoid, the rest ring beads. | |
| 7620 | (none) | (none) | B16813 | 41 lapis lazuli beads. 5 bugle beads, 2 barrel beads, 1 double conoid, rest ball beads. | |
| 7621 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 7 beads. 6 agate lentoid, 1 carnelian bugle bead. Kassite. |
| 7661 | (none) | (none) | B16817 | Necklace. 39 frit beads. |
| 7666 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 complete carnelian beads. 2 fragments. One small lentoid, the rest large bugle beads slightly convex in the middle. One of the 3 complete beads broken and mended. Neo-Babylonian. |
| 7688 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frit beads. |
| 7693 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis. |
| 7893 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 52 in number. Small ring beads, a few double conoid and 1 large ball bead. |
| 7918 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Agate. Lentoid. |
| 7924 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead Crystal Cylindrical with truncated conical top. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7958 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads of carnelian etc. From a bracelet. 2 carnelian, 4 jasper (blood stone), lentoid bugles, 4 silver ball beads, 1 gold plated copper ball bead (decayed). |
| 7959 | (none) | 1928,1009.64 | (none) | Beads of gold and carnelian. Long bugles: 8 gold, 4 carnelian. With them were strung other beads; v. tomb notes. |
| 7962 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads of lapis, carnelian and gold, and one agate. Double conoids of different sizes, and 2 large gold-plated ball beads. 34 gold beads in all. There was evidence that these formed a separate string, stone and metal beads strung alternately. |
| 7963 | (none) | 1928,1009.103 | (none) | Beads. Mostly small ball beads of gold (thin leaf over copper), lapis, and a few carnelian (some rings). Apparently forming a single necklace, or two of the same pattern; one gold bead to every 1 or 2 stone according to size. Most of the gold beads were destroyed through the decay and swelling of the copper cores. One string containing the best gold beads made up for exhibition. |
| 7976 | (none) | 1928,1009.119 | (none) | Ball bead of black steatite. |
| 8004 | (none) | 1928,1009.84 | (none) | Large ball bead of lapis with gold caps. Sphere with ribbed sides. |
| 8008 | (none) | (none) | B16815 | Lapis lazuli beads. A great number, all small, some minute. With lapis spacers for 3 parallel strings. |
| 8009 | (none) | (none) | B17622 | White shell beads. All small, mostly minute: several thousands of them, with one white spacer. | |
| 8010 | (none) | (none) | B17667 | Beads. Carnelian. Mostly minute ring beads. With them a few small balls etc. |
| 8011A | (none) | (none) | B16811 | Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carnelians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017] |
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