Accession No

1947.2066.7


Description

Two pendants or beads made from possibly glass or stone. Rounded top with centred perforation leading to conical section with pointed terminal. One bead is slightly larger than the other. Green and yellow in colour.


Place

Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur


Period


Source

Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1947.2066.7; 1515 [Beck Coll.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

?Faience; ?Glass; ?Stone


Local Term


Measurements

12mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Historic description for 1947.2066.7: 'Green and yellow; Drop, inverted.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Green-yellow faience pendants (glass?), inverted drop.'
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 in 1926.
Event Date 1926
Author: Annie Tomkins


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2066[.1-10]: 'Eleven drop pendants of amazonite, alabaster, agate, shell, carnelian, faience, steatite and limestone.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Annie Tomkins


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


Context (Analysis)
Doubtful about material identification.
Event Date 24/5/1988
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Two pendants or beads made from possibly glass or stone. Rounded top with centred perforation leading to conical section with pointed terminal. One bead is slightly larger than the other. Green and yellow in colour.
Event Date 22/9/2022
Author: Annie Tomkins


FM:32448

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