Context (Analysis)
During the week of 7 November 2016, Dr Akinori Uesugi, Kanazawa University, and Wannaporn (Kay) Rienjang, Division of Archaeology, took a mould of this idno. The bead was removed from its string for this purpose and the moulds taken using hydrophilic vinyl polysiloxane impression material. It was then re-strung.
Event Date 17/11/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card adds: 'the circle at one end looks like a natural band in the agate, but I think it is etched.'
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)
Agate (black) with etched lines - the circle at one end looks like a natural band in the agate, but I think it is etched.

Event Date 12/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn