Accession No
1947.2032.16
Description
Bead - Yellow, pale, translucent. Elliptical
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2032.16; 1281 t [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Calcite
Local Term
Measurements
17mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Calcite bead ? W[indeciperhable]?'.
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)
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 1947
Author: Jane Pettitt
Description (Physical description)
Yellow, pale, translucent. Elliptical
Event Date 15/12/1987
Author: maa
FM:32329
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