Accession No
1947.2051 A
Description
A spherical clay bead with decorated with small dots in longitudinal lines.
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2051 A; 1453 [Beck coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Clay
Local Term
Measurements
10mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card:'Roughly spherical clay or faience head with pricked decoration in longitudinal lines.'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter
Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley in 1927.
Event Date 1927
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2051 [A]: 'Spherical pricked clay or faience bead.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Emily Shorter
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: Emily Shorter
Description (CMS Description)
Decorated with lines of stippled dots; Cream; Ovoid
Event Date 20/1/1988
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
A spherical clay bead with decorated with small dots in longitudinal lines.
Event Date 17/10/2022
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:32389
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