Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Slightly square ellipsoid... hard black stone.'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Analysis)
Note on Horace Beck's catalogue card reads: Shape similar to bead of Earliest Period 3000-3500 BC, but not of lapis but a hard black stone. Suggestive of obsidian but seems to have either cleavage planes or stratification'.
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 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: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2059 [C]: 'Slightly squared ellipsoid bead of steatite.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Black; Ovoid in outline; square in section
Event Date 21/1/1988
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A black steatite bead, of slightly square ellipsoid shape.
Event Date 13/10/2022
Author: Emily Shorter