Description (Labels & Markings)
Much faded handwritten tag reads: '1378 A. UR 1920[?]'.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card for 1378 A: 'Dark green glass (I) bead'
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Author: Katrina Dring

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: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2104 D: 'Dark green glass cylinder bead.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Beck's catalogue card for 1378 has five entries (A-E) but a note in a later hand notes that only A was traced, so only 1378 A was assigned the MAA idno 1947.2104 D.
Event Date 30/4/2014
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Dr Kathryn Kelley, University of Oxford, believe it may be a cylinder seal whose is very worn, which may account for why it was originally described as a cylinder bead. Whether it is made of man-made glass, obsidian or another material is currently unknown. The Description has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 7/11/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Cylinder bead or cylinder seal, surface very worn. Made of dark green glass or perhaps obsidian.
Event Date 7/11/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)