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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11468B | 30-12-630 | (none) | (none) | Beads. (A) A string of lapis and carnelian bugles & double conoids with a few of silver decayed, and a lapis cylinder with criss-cross pattern. (B) Small rings of paste & lapis with a [C] lapis frog amulet. | |
 | 11468C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. (A) A string of lapis and carnelian bugles & double conoids with a few of silver decayed, and a lapis cylinder with criss-cross pattern. (B) Small rings of paste & lapis with a [C] lapis frog amulet. |
| 11472 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small beads of glaze & silver with 1 triangular steatite spacer. Poor. |
| 11477 | 30-12-465 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian and lapis, bugles & lentoids; a few ball-heads of dark wood (ebony?) most of which fell to pieces. For order see Field Notes. | |
| 11485 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. One long bead of white shell, and a number of small lapis and carnelian beads, lentoids and balls. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11489B.1 | 30-12-499 | (none) | (none) | Tomb group. Gold earrings, beads, etc. (A) [A .1-.2] Pair of earrings each composed of a small gold spiral ring with lunate ends from which hangs a similar ring of silver. (B) [B.1-.2] Set of beads, gold, silver, lapis, agate and carnelian (see field notes) (C) [C, E, F] 3 silver finger rings (D) A set of larger beads found on the left upper arm. |
| 11489B.2 | 30-12-586 | (none) | (none) | Tomb group. Gold earrings, beads, etc. (A) [A .1-.2] Pair of earrings each composed of a small gold spiral ring with lunate ends from which hangs a similar ring of silver. (B) [B.1-.2] Set of beads, gold, silver, lapis, agate and carnelian (see field notes) (C) [C, E, F] 3 silver finger rings (D) A set of larger beads found on the left upper arm. |
| 11489D | 30-12-628 | (none) | (none) | Tomb group. Gold earrings, beads, etc. (A) [A .1-.2] Pair of earrings each composed of a small gold spiral ring with lunate ends from which hangs a similar ring of silver. (B) [B.1-.2] Set of beads, gold, silver, lapis, agate and carnelian (see field notes) (C) [C, E, F] 3 silver finger rings (D) A set of larger beads found on the left upper arm. |
| 11491A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small carnelian & lapis: the carnelian mostly rings & small bugles, the lapis balls & double conoids. [object identified in publication] |
| 11493 | (none) | 1929,1017.494 | (none) | Beads. Small lapis diamonds and a few silver. Also silver rings found with the beads, and silver earrings. |
| 11501 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small lapis & carnelian & silver. see Field Notes. |
| 11503C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. (A) Copper bangle, plain slightly thicker in the middle than at the ends which meet accurately & probably formed a spring; (B) [B, D-E] 3 copper finger rings; (C) A few mixed beads, lapis, carnelian & agate. |
| 11514 | (none) | 1929,1017.303 | (none) | Beads. Lapis lentoids & double conoids with 2 ribbed gold balls & a few carnelians (rings and 1 bugle). |
| 11520 | (none) | 1929,1017.308 | (none) | Beads. Lapis & carnelian. |
| 11521B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid. |
| 11522 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 Beads. Long double conoids, two lapis, one gold; probably from a frontlet though found by the throat. |
| 11531 | 30-12-451 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelians, lapis & chrysoprases (?) see Field Notes. | |
| 11535 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold, silver, carnelian & lapis. 4 large carnelian & 2 silver diamonds, the rest small balls, etc. See Field Notes. |
| 11559 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Pandants of gold, lapis & carnelian (with spacers) strung on rows of very small lapis, carnelian & gold beads (see Field Notes). (Most of the beads are in the mixed collection: those kept with the pendants show the type to be used in re-stringing). |
| 11560 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis, gold, carnelian & shell forming a belt. (See Field Notes). NB = Most of the beads are in the mixed collection. Then put apart in a cigarette box an almost [illegible 3 word phrase] of the same belt.) |
| 11561 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small carnelian balls strung together (see Field Notes). |
| 11562 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold, lapis, carnelian & agate; the remainder of the beads from the grave. (See Field notes). |
| 11563 | (none) | 1929,1017.257 | (none) | Beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis. Found loose together near PG 1068 & abut 300mm higher up. |
| 11579 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Gold balls, very small; silver balls, silver diamonds, agate lentoids. 1 long carnelian bugle; 1 large agate two-eyed pendant. |
| 11585 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Long bugles of gold, lapis and carnelian (one of the latter with bleached pattern) and ball heads of the same materials: for order see Field Notes. |
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