Object

Accession No

1947.2034.1

Description

Two faience axe pendant beads or amulets.

Place

Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur

Period

Prehistoric

Source

Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1947.2034.1; 1282 a [Beck Coll.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Faience

Local Term

Measurements

Events

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card for 1947.2034.1-5: '8 small amulets...'
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: '2 axe pendants - faience'
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2034.1: '...two axe pendants of faience'.
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)
Axe
Event Date 15/12/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Two faience axe pendant beads or amulets.
Event Date 14/10/2022
Author: Jane Pettitt

FM:32330