Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card reads: 'Etched carnelian pear shaped bead - with fine pattern'
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 in 1926
Event Date 1926
Author: Sam Daisley

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2047 A-B: 'B. Etched carnelian pear shaped bead.'
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

Context (Analysis)
Unusual colour if it is carnelian as Beck observed.
Event Date 15/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Historic description: 'Grid pattern of white squares etched with grey lines. Part of pattern is in negative with white lines on grey squares. Very shiny (glazed?) surface; White; Cylindrical'
Event Date 15/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Pear shaped bead made of carnelian. Decorated on the surface with grey lines forming squares. Possible glazed surface.
Event Date 17/10/2022
Author: Sam Daisley