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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10700 | (none) | 1935,0113.438 | (none) | Beads 3 small steatite lentoids 1 glazed ball head 1 oval shaped composite pendant in 5 pieces, grooved vertically to receive string See Field Notes E |
| 9735 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 3 strings Top string: lapis diamond beads; middle string: silver ball beads; Bottom string: glazed double conoids (decayed) |
| 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. |
| 9515 | (none) | (none) | B16943 | Beads 5 gold double conoids 2 carnelian lentoids 1 agate lentoid 1 agate bugle Strung alternatively (see Field Notes) | |
| 10408 | (none) | 1928,1010.98 | (none) | Beads 5 gold, 1 lapis, carnelian and agate Restrung not in original order Isin period |
| 10848 | (none) | 1935,0113.443 | (none) | Beads 5 large carnelian lentoids and 1 small gold ball (from the neck) |
| 10028 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 6 gold composite (triune) beads lentoid probably strung with small lapis lentoids: but found in confusion. Certainly lapis and gold lentoids (small) were used together and were found mixed up on the left side of the coffin where these spacers were also found. |
| 9244 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 8 lapis double conoids 3 lapis bugles 2 carnelian bugles 2 banded sard bugles 1 gold double conoid |
| 9509 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads 8 steatite, dark grey, 4 lentoids and 4 double axe-shaped 1 facetted lentoid-bloodstone? Large and small beads strung alternatively round neck. |
| 10425 | (none) | (none) | B17630 | Beads a few gold lentoids & others | |
| 9775 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A great quantity of small rings of blue glazed frit. |
| 9627 | (none) | (none) | B16928 | Beads A necklace of small beads, gold diamonds alternating with lapis diamonds or carnelians (diamonds or rings): see Field Notes 26 gold beads. | |
| 10880 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A set of large lentoids found on the top of the thigh bone, possibly connected with the belt but not in the same character: 4 lapis, 4 gold, 2 facetted carnelian. |
| 10026 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A set of silver ring pendants, much decayed, strung with carnelian bugles and small lapis beads (found in confusion) |
| 8525 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A string composed of 5 carnelian and 4 gold long double conoid beads L. 0052 and one flattened ovoid carnelian: and between these small fluted balls of gold and lapis: see field notes. |
| 9537A | (none) | (none) | B16918 | Beads A/ Short string, long carnelian bugle, and 3 smaller ditto., separated by silver balls. B/ Diamond shaped lapis beads alternating with flat silver-plate beads. [drawing] C/ Mixed string of small gold fluted balls, lapis, carnelian, agate and paste, restrung mostly in original order (see Field Notes) except that there are no silver beads: in the field notes the 2 strings B & C were probably confused) | |
| 9537B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A/ Short string, long carnelian bugle, and 3 smaller ditto., separated by silver balls. B/ Diamond shaped lapis beads alternating with flat silver-plate beads. [drawing] C/ Mixed string of small gold fluted balls, lapis, carnelian, agate and paste, restrung mostly in original order (see Field Notes) except that there are no silver beads: in the field notes the 2 strings B & C were probably confused) |
| 9537C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads A/ Short string, long carnelian bugle, and 3 smaller ditto., separated by silver balls. B/ Diamond shaped lapis beads alternating with flat silver-plate beads. [drawing] C/ Mixed string of small gold fluted balls, lapis, carnelian, agate and paste, restrung mostly in original order (see Field Notes) except that there are no silver beads: in the field notes the 2 strings B & C were probably confused) |
| 10434 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads balls of (?wood?) 19 in all |
| 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) |
| 10889 | (none) | (none) | B16735 | Beads Big double conoids of gold (plated) lapis and carnelian For order see Field Notes | |
| 9157 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Bone Small rings & balls. |
| 10544 | (none) | (none) | B16754 | Beads Double conoids lapis & 2 small gold lentoids | |
| 10401 | (none) | 1928,1010.174 | (none) | Beads Double conoids of gold & lapis See Field Notes |
| 9985 | (none) | (none) | B17642 | Beads double conoids of gold and lapis small Strung in groups of 4 or 8, in alternate colors |
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