Accession No
1947.2121 C
Description
String of three tubular stalagmite beads. One white to yellow, with a slightly plano-convex cross-section; one grey with a brown band and slightly irregular profile; one white with red bands and slightly barrel-shaped. Barrel-shaped bead broken.
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2121 C
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Stalagmite
Local Term
Measurements
Events
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)
Catalogue card for 1947.2121 [A-C]: 'One of these is Mr.Beck' s No.1926 from 1928-29 excavations which he suggests is Neolithic, whatever that may mean, the others having been added to the string!'
Event Date 1947
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2121 [A-C]: 'String of five stalagmite beads'
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: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
String of three tubular stalagmite beads. One white to yellow, with a slightly plano-convex cross-section; one grey with a brown band and slightly irregular profile; one white with red bands and slightly barrel-shaped. Barrel-shaped bead broken.
Event Date 30/9/2022
Author: Katrina Dring
FM:299755
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