Accession No
1927.875 F
Description
Carnelian bead with etched wavy line.
Place
Asia; South Asia; Pakistan; Punjab; Rawalpindi; Taxila
Period
?Prehistoric
Source
Ridgeway, William (Professor; Sir) [bequeather]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1927.875 F
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Carnelian
Local Term
Measurements
Events
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)
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 wavy line.
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 of this bead using hydrophilic vinyl polysiloxane impression material.
Event Date 21/7/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
FM:269097
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