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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 20089 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian cylinders [crossed out] rings. |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.185 | (none) | (none) |
| 12776B.2 | (none) | 1928,1010.747 | (none) | Group of objects: (A) Small fragment of obsidian vase. (B) [.1-.6] 3 long clay bugles, imitation of beads cut from core of shell. (C) Obsidian chip. (D) Jar - stopper of mud and lime, circular, one face flat, one convex, with rough incisions on flat face, perhaps accidental. (E) [.1-.2] Fragment of terracotta figure perhaps the head of a dragon (?). [Drawing] (F) Clay object, flat, with incised holes. (G) [.1-.6] Five fragments of clay jar sealings with seal impressions : all have rows of animals in wooded or rocky country. (H) [.1-.26] Pottery fragments 1) Plum red and back decoration on light ground: 2 examples. 2) Red decoration on light ground and other fragments. Not in catalog of Vol. IV. |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.375 | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1010.686 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1928,1009.205 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | 1931,1010.234 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 98-9-69 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 30-12-486A | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
| 8089B | (none) | 1928,1009.112 | (none) | [A-B] Beads. Lapis lazuli (poor quality of stone). Large faceted lentoids. [drawing 1:1] |
| 9656G | (none) | (none) | (none) | 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. |
| 9656F | (none) | 1928,1010.108 | (none) | 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. |
| 9656E | (none) | 1928,1010.108 | (none) | 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. |
| 9656D | (none) | (none) | (none) | 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. |
| 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 |
| 16682B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glass paste, balls and ovoids. |
| 19053A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads; (A) A set of lapis triangular spacers from a small dog-collar (silver spacers decayed); (B) A long string of carnelian and lapis beads (and some silver) balls, tubes and rings. |
| 17349B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Mostly glass paste. Large balls. Barrels decorated with small globules. Also blue bugles, pear shaped beads. Ring beads, lentoids. 1 carnelian ring bead. |
| 16715A | (none) | 1931,1010.239 | (none) | Beads: Glass paste. (1) circular yellow button beads with blue inlaid centres. (2) small yellow ring beads, (3) composite black and white tubular beads. |
| 16710B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: 401 in all. Jasper, quartz, lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, cats eye, breccia, granite, amethyst, copper, and various mottled stones, reddish brown, grey, etc. 1 gold double conoid; order not know. Mostly lentoids. Also barrels, rings, double conoids, balls. |
| 18582 | (none) | (none) | B 16723 | Beads. Carnelian rings, lapis cylindrical and 2 white steatite beads. |
| 11147.1 | (none) | (none) | B 17633 | Beads. Lapis bugles and carnelian rings being the remains of a headdress (the rest had been plundered). | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B15245 | (none) |
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