Accession No
1947.2060 B
Description
Bead; Pendant - Roughly chipped and unfinished. Perforation also unfinished. Possibly not a bead but a miniature adze (?); Black; Adze
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2060 B; 1486 [Beck coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
?Shale; Stone
Local Term
Measurements
41mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Roughly chipped pendant. Axe? Perforation commenced but not finished.'
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: maa
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 1947.2060 [B]: 'Roughly chipped black stone axe pendant. Perforation not complete.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Emily Shorter
Description (Physical description)
Roughly chipped and unfinished. Perforation also unfinished. Possibly not a bead but a miniature adze (?); Black; Adze
Event Date 22/4/1988
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
A black axe pendant with incomplete perforation at the narrow end, or a miniature adze. Possibly made from shale.
Event Date 13/10/2022
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:32423
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