Accession No

1947.2037.2


Description

Five pendant chip beads of red 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

1947.2037.2; 1343 B [Beck Coll.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Carnelian


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'B. 5 Pendants some chipped only - some slightly ground also.'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


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


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: Lizzy Peneycad


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... B = 5 pendants.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley


Description (Physical description)
Red; Drop, irregular
Event Date 12/1/1988
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Five pendant chip beads of red carnelian.
Event Date 14/10/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:32354

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