Accession No
1947.2057 B
Description
Bead; Amulet - Deep cut and wide horizontal lines for eyebrows and below mouth to indicate chin (or beard?). Triangular nose. Ears also depicted. Reverse concave. Not perforated; Grey; Face
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
?Early Period
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2057 B; 1480 [Beck coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Face or skull amulet. Grey stone.'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter
Context (Analysis)
Note on Horace Beck's catalogue card reads: 'Early period ?'
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
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)
Catalogue card for 1947.2057 [B]: 'Face amulet of grey stone.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Emily Shorter
Description (Physical description)
Deep cut and wide horizontal lines for eyebrows and below mouth to indicate chin (or beard?). Triangular nose. Ears also depicted. Reverse concave. Not perforated; Grey; Face
Event Date 21/1/1988
Author: maa
FM:32403
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