Accession No

1947.2071 B.1-5


Description

Five rings made of shell, two polished and two matt. Possibly beads.


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

1947.2071 B.1-5; 1549 A-E [Beck Coll.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Shell


Local Term


Measurements


Events

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)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Rings of shell. Beads?'
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley


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: Sam Daisley


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2071 [A-C]: 'B = 5 shell rings.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley


Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card for 1947.2071 [A-C]: 'Probably all early period, as early as 3000 BC'
Event Date 1947
Author: Sam Daisley


Description (Physical description)
Historic description: 'White and brown; Ring'
Event Date 22/6/1988
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Five rings made of shell, two polished and two matt. Possibly beads.
Event Date 16/9/2022
Author: Sam Daisley


FM:32476

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