Accession No

1947.2037.3


Description

String of 36 roughly ground carnelian beads of irregular cylinder disc shape.


Place

Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur


Period

?Prehistoric


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1947.2037.3; 1343 C [Beck Coll.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Carnelian


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


Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley, possibly in the 1925-1926 season.
Event Date 1925
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: Sam Daisley


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. B = 5 pendants. C = String of 36 roughly ground carnelian beads. E = 4 rough carnelian beads.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley


Description (Physical description)
Historic description: 'Orange/red; Ring'
Event Date 12/1/1988
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
String of 36 roughly ground carnelian beads of irregular cylinder disc shape.
Event Date 16/9/2022
Author: Sam Daisley


FM:32355

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