Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Broken seed vessel amulet'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Analysis)
Note on Horace Beck's catalogue card reads: 'from Dikdikkeh... ?2000 BC.'
Event Date
Author: maa

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: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2052: 'Broken seed vessel amulet'
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 (Physical description)
Broken; Red; Poppy seed
Event Date 20/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A carnelian seed vessel bead, with a narrow cylindrical section that widens to a rounded shoulder. Pierced at the narrow section. Broken at wide end.
Event Date 14/10/2022
Author: Emily Shorter