Accession No

1947.2120 A


Description

Cylindrical bead of breccia with red pigment.


Place

Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur


Period


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1947.2120 A; 1920 [Beck Coll.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Breccia


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card description: 'Bead roughly long barrel of a Breccia containing red material (a fer? chert?) similar to material Badarian bead is made of.'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Context (Field collection)
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 1928
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley in 1928-9.
Event Date 1928
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1947.2120 A: 'Roughly barrel-shaped bead of breccia'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa


Context (Amendments / updates)
None of 1947.2120. are dated and most are from 1928-29 excavations.
Event Date 24/7/1992
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Cylindrical bead of breccia with red pigment.
Event Date 13/10/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:52922

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