Description (Physical description)
Possible wallet bead. Limestone bead with calcite.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Limestone pebble and calcite'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2032.1-16: '15 beads and pendants mounted on separate card. All are of limestone, steatite, calcite, diorite or stalagmite except for one of clay.'
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley in 1926.
Event Date 1926
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected by Horace Beck and donated by his widow, Gundred Beck, in 1947. See Horace Beck’s handwritten catalogue, classified by region (WO1/1/2).
Event Date 1947
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Perforated along bottom flat edge; Green/grey with white stripe; Semi-circular in profile; cone-shaped in section
Event Date 9/12/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Semi-circular cylindrical grey limestone bead with white striped calcite deposits. Perforated closely along one edge. Cone-shaped in section.
Event Date 13/10/2022
Author: Jane Pettitt