Context (CMS Context)
In April 2014 Wannaporn (Kay) Rienjang, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge Division of Archaeology, examined this bead and made a silicone impression of the drill hole of this bead. She concluded that: 'the bead was perforated by a diamond drill, a type of drill invented in India c. 600 BC and continues to be used until now'. The attached images is a SEM image of the silicone impression, which was taken by Wannaporn.
Event Date 12/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card adds: 'This is very similar in general design to some of the beads from Kish.'
Event Date 12/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
A typed note attached to the card says: "These are a few of a set of beads, coins, etc, dug up at Taxila, North West India many years ago by Major General Walker who presented them to me in 1903 after reading my Early Age of Greece. The fine set of beads are strung separately with a label ' Taxila' with Nos. 1927.876, 877, 878 and 879". B and D are figured in the Beck reference above; Ref. Plate: LXVIII : L and O
Event Date 12/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (CMS Description)
Carnelian with etched lines - This is very similar in general design to some of the beads from Kish.
Event Date 12/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
During the week of 21 July 2017, Dr Akinori Uesugi, Kanazawa University, and Wannaporn (Kay) Rienjang, Division of Archaeology, took moulds this bead using hydrophilic vinyl polysiloxane impression material.
Event Date 21/7/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)