Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Long rough cylinder faience bead ?if ever glazed ?2.50 long .25-dia'
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

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

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1947.2047 [A-B]: 'A = Long barrel bead of faience. 2 1/2 long.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley

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)
Historic description for 1947.2047 [A]: 'Rolled out by hand in irregular thickness; Brown, light; Tubular'
Event Date 15/1/1988
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
This seems to be baked clay rather than faience as Beck observed.
Event Date 15/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Long barrel shaped bead made of clay; irregular surface.
Event Date 16/9/2022
Author: Sam Daisley