Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley. 
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Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Note on Horace Beck catalogue card: 'The original matrix in bottle. This matrix is extremely friable, is not melted in lamp flame but becomes red hot and looks earthy but under microscope is an isotropic material. Extremely dark even in small fragments. See slide 117.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Gold bead. Now mounted on modelling wax core.'
Event Date
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

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card for 1947.2038: 'Matrix is now in a bottle numbered 1348 A in Mr Beck' s catalogue. This is 1348.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2038: 'Gold bead. The original matrix has been replaced with modelling wax.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Felicity McDowall

Description (Physical description)
Fragmentary gold sheet, apparently on a core not of bitumen; Broken; Gold; Elliptical in profile; circular in section
Event Date 12/1/1988
Author: maa

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2015.2123 | Remedial
Event Date 11/12/2015
Author: kw402

Description (Physical description)
Wood or clay bead, roughly cylindrical, with ribbed gilding on top.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fragment of a gold bead, sub-cylindrical in shape with narrow horizontal ribbing. Gold sheet wrapped around a modern core of modelling wax.
Event Date 13/10/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad