Accession No
1947.2120 B
Description
Convex cone disc of sandstone and tiered disc bead of shale or slate.
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 B; cone disc 1921 [Beck Coll.]; disc bead 1922 [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Shale; Slate; Sandstone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Shale or slate bead from Ur. The surface may have been glazed or ? heated to cause the white layer. Convex cone disc with one concave end of sandstone with large grains of quartz (?small pebbles).'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe
Context (Amendments / updates)
None of 1947.2120. are dated and most are from 1928-29 excavations.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (1922-1934), excavated by Leonard Woolley in 1928-29.
Event Date 1928
Author: Lily Stancliffe
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: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1947.2120 B: 'Convex cone disc of sandstone and tiered disc bead of shale or slate.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa
FM:132132
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