Description (Physical description)
No traces of pattern visible on bead. Vegetable temper of clay perhaps mistaken for patterning. ' Roughly ellipsoidal bead in clay with decoration in longitudinal lines and various marks in between
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Note on Horace Beck's catalogue card reads: 'Roughly spherical bead in clay with decoration in longitudinal lines and various marks in between - probably signs?.'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2051 [B]: 'Ellipsoid clay bead. Very fragile.'
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: 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: maa

Description (Physical description)
Roughly finished. Lots of vegetable temper in clay; Grey; Cylindrical
Event Date 20/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A cylindrical clay bead with a textured surface, possible vegetable temper.
Event Date 17/10/2022
Author: Emily Shorter