Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Large convex cone disc bead or small mace head in green steatite?'
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 possibly in the 1925-1926 or 1926-1927 season.
Event Date 1925
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)
Catalogue card for 1947.2053 [A-D]: 'C= convex disc bead or small mace head. 1 3/5" diameter ?Green steatite. 1926 excavations.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Amendments / updates)
Material noted as 'green steatite?' on index card, but changed to ' fine grained diorite' on mount.
Event Date 20/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Historic description: 'One side of disk is flat and the other is convex. Large perforation; Green; Disc'
Event Date 20/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Stone spindle whorl, or possibly a bead, possibly made of green steatite or diorite. Plano-convex cross-section with a central hole.
Event Date 28/9/2022
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Analysis)
This object seems very clearly to be a spindle whorl and is similar to many other examples. However, Beck has described it as a bead (or possibly a small mace head), and may have had some further information that may have indicated this object was a bead. Until further investigation can be done both have been added to the description.
Event Date 28/9/2022
Author: Sam Daisley