Accession No
1947.2106
Description
Four long faience barrel beads on a string and five similar beads loose in a box. Right and left adjacent spirals in black faience on buff background.
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2106; 1387 [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Faience
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: '3 long barrel beads. Spirals rt.-left adjacent, black faience on buff colour.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Analysis)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'No date.'
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 1926.
Event Date 1926
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
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: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Four long faience barrel beads on a string and five similar beads loose in a box. Right and left adjacent spirals in black faience on buff background.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa
FM:266579
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