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
Images (Click to view full size):