Accession No

1947.2037.5


Description

String of four stone beads. One irregular cylinder disc bead, possibly of unpolished red carnelian, one cylinder disc bead of orange carnelian covered with white, one irregular short convex bicone bead of dark red carnelian, and one irregular cylinder disc bead of brown jasper.


Place

Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur


Period

?Prehistoric


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1947.2037.5; 1343 E [Beck Coll.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Carnelian; Jasper


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'E. 4 Rough beads. Carnelian.'
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 1925.
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: 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... E = 4 rough carnelian beads.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley


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


Description (Physical description)
String of four stone beads. One irregular cylinder disc bead, possibly of unpolished red carnelian, one cylinder disc bead of orange carnelian covered with white, one irregular short convex bicone bead of dark red carnelian, and one irregular cylinder disc bead of brown jasper.
Event Date 14/10/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:32357

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