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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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] |
| 8735B | (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. |
| 8781A | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis. |
| 8781B | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis. |
| 8781C | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis. |
| 8904 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small lapis and carnelian with lapis phallic amulet. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8918 | (none) | 1928,1009.69 | (none) | Beads. A necklace composed of small diamond-shaped lapis beads and of flat gold disk beads strung alternately. NB. Either some of the of the gold beads were not found or else at the back there was lapis only. |
| 8919 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A string of moderately large beads, balls of gold foil over copper (in bad condition) and lapis, with a few carnelian, one of the latter a bugle with gold cap. |
| 8920 | (none) | 1928,1009.77 | (none) | Beads. A string of small lentoids of lapis and of gold foil over copper (the latter in bad condition) strung in alternate sets of 6. |
| 8921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small silver and carnelian beads, (NB: Some of these are mixed up with U.8920) |
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