Accession No
1947.2102 A
Description
String of 25 small beads including carnelian, glass, faience, frit and one of gold; gold bead is of rolled sheet metal. One pear shaped bead, a few annular and the rest biconical.
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
Larsa 2170-1910 BC
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2102 A; 1347 [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Carnelian; Glass; Faience; Metal; Gold
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Label affixed by string reads: '1347 Ur. found together' and on reverse 'Larsa Period'
Event Date
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: Sam Daisley
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'String of beads. Carnelian, glass, faience, shell, frit and one gold.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Beck's catalogue card notes that [1947.2102 A-C] were 'all said to have been found together'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2102 [A-C]: 'String of 25 small beads including carnelian, glass, faience, frit and one of gold. Not on the string, but found together, are broken beads, an adze amulet and a bead showing traces of metal suggesting they were mounted on ?copper wire.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa
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: Sam Daisley
Context (Acquisition Details)
Beck's catalogue card for 1347 gives the string of beads [now 1947.2102 A] as the main entry, but also has three sub-entries (A-C). A note in a later hand notes that 1375 C was not found, so only 1375 A (loose beads) [now 1947.2102 B] and B (test tube) [now 1947.2102 C] were included together as part of MAA idno 1947.2102.
Event Date 1947
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (Analysis)
The catalogue card notes that: 'The faience collared melon bead [on 1947.2102 A] suggests the Larsa Period 2170-1910 B.C.'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
String of 25 small beads including carnelian, glass, faience, frit and one of gold; gold bead is of rolled sheet metal. One pear shaped bead, a few annular and the rest biconical.
Event Date 27/9/2022
Author: Sam Daisley
FM:267593
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