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

Context (Amendments / updates)
Horace Beck catalogue card for 1388 B: 'The construction of this material is very peculiar but I believe it to be glass. spg. 2.43 [specific gravity]'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card for 1388 B: 'Yellow glass oblate bead mottled.'
Event Date
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 E: 'Yellow glass oblate bead.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
Beck's catalogue card for 1388 has two entries (A-B) but a note in a later hand notes that only B was traced, so only 1388 B was assigned the MAA idno 1947.2104 E.
Event Date 30/4/2014
Author: maa