Accession No
1947.2064 C
Description
Shell spacing bead, roughly lozenge shaped. Two perforations at opposite ends.
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2064 C; 1502 [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Shell
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Shell lozenge shaped spacing bead.'
Event Date
Author: Annie Tomkins
Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley.
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Historic description for 1947.2064 C: 'Spacer bead, pierced through top and bottom of flat ' lozenge' Grey; Lozenge.'
Event Date
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: Annie Tomkins
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1947.2064 C: 'Shell spacing bead.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Annie Tomkins
Description (Physical description)
Shell spacing bead, roughly lozenge shaped. Two perforations at opposite ends.
Event Date 21/9/2022
Author: Annie Tomkins
FM:32438
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