Accession No

1947.2037.1


Description

String of four carnelian beads. One perforated irregular bead of unpolished red carnelian, one short convex bicone bead of translucent pink carnelian, one sub-annular bead of carnelian or jasper, and one sub-cylindrical disc bead of translucent orange carnelian.


Place

Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur


Period

?Prehistoric


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1947.2037.1; 1343 A [Beck Coll.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Carnelian; ?Japser


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Analysis)
Note on Horace Beck catalogue card for 1947.2037[.1-6] reads: Probably mostly if not all prehistoric.'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'A. String 4 Pebbles pierced.'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


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


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2037[.1-6]: 'String of Carnelian and jasper beads and pendants. Mr. Beck's No. 1343 which he has subdivided A-F. A = 4 pierced pebbles.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


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: Lizzy Peneycad


Description (Physical description)
Ring (one example); Irregular (three example)
Event Date 12/1/1988
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
String of four carnelian beads. One perforated irregular bead of unpolished red carnelian, one short convex bicone bead of translucent pink carnelian, one sub-annular bead of carnelian or jasper, and one sub-cylindrical disc bead of translucent orange carnelian.
Event Date 14/10/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:32353

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