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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9657C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 worked Gold Beads Double conoids stacked together. Applique filigree work |
| 9657D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 worked Gold Beads. Double conoids stacked together. Applique filigree work |
| 9666 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Ball beads. About 30, all on copper cores. |
| 9683 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small lapis diamonds and silver-plate beads Found by the pin 9682 and probably used to fasten to it the cylinder seal 9681 |
| 9696 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 4, 3 carnelian and 1 gold apparently used to join up the 2 cylinder seals with which they were found. |
| 9703 | (none) | (none) | B17591 | Lead? and copper specimens Misshapen lumps | |
| 9704A | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Strings of beads. (a) Long double conoid lapis beads; 1 carnelian ditto; 1 chrysoprase? [not legible] ditto; 4 tubular agate beads; silver ball beads. (for order of stringing see Field Note) (b) 12 gold tubular beads; 8 gold diamonds; 7 carnelian diamonds; 1 banded crystal tube; 9 lapis tubes; 4 carnelian tubes; decayed silver diamonds and double conoids. (for order see Field Notes) |
| 9704B | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Strings of beads. (a) Long double conoid lapis beads; 1 carnelian ditto; 1 chrysoprase? [not legible] ditto; 4 tubular agate beads; silver ball beads. (for order of stringing see Field Note) (b) 12 gold tubular beads; 8 gold diamonds; 7 carnelian diamonds; 1 banded crystal tube; 9 lapis tubes; 4 carnelian tubes; decayed silver diamonds and double conoids. (for order see Field Notes) |
| 9719 | (none) | (none) | B17021 | Beads 15 gold double conoids About 25 carnelian barrel beads and a similar number of lapis double conoids. All minute. |
| 9735 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 3 strings Top string: lapis diamond beads; middle string: silver ball beads; Bottom string: glazed double conoids (decayed) |
| 9752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Balls of gold-plating over copper, rock crystal rings, 1 lapis lentoid with gold caps, originally bound with a spiral or silver wire, 1 carnelian lentoid (see Field Notes) |
| 9753 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Small lapis & gold For order see Field Notes. |
| 9754 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. From a string of small lapis beads alternating with silver, the silver mostly perished, many of the lapis are mixed up with 9753. |
| 9767 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold balls, agate lentoids, and some silver balls; mostly in original order: see Field Notes. |
| 9775 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A great quantity of small rings of blue glazed frit. |
| 9779 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold Bead Double conoid Decorated with applied filligree work and circular cloisons once filled in with lapis (now all missing: a fragment of lapis remained in one cloison when the object was found) [drawing] |
| 9780B | (none) | (none) | B17655 | Gold Chain The usual type with double-twisted links giving a square section |
| 9782 | (none) | 1928,1010.181 | (none) | Beads Two large lapis lentoids One gold lentoid 1 lapis bugle |
| 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. |
| 9805 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 2 gold; 1 small ring bead, 1 double conoid 5 carnelian; double conoids 9 lapis beads: tubes and double conoids 1 agate lentoid |
| 9826 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Frit Ring beads Glaze Many hundreds. Worn all round head. cf. Field Notes. |
| 9834 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bugle Bead Lapis lazuli Decorated with a series of V-shaped incisions two registers [drawing] |
| 9838 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 19 lapis lazuli double conoids. Apparently worn round wrist. Type V. [drawing 1:1] |
| 9839 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Carnelian Bead Double conoid Worn alone round neck [drawing] |
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