Accession No
1947.2033.5 E
Description
One frosted quartz bead, irregular in shape.
Place
Asia; West Asia; Iraq; Ur
Period
?Early Period
Source
Beck, Gundred Eleanor [donor]; Beck, Horace Courthope [collector]; Woolley, Leonard [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.2033.5 E; 1558 [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Quartz
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, possibly in 1925 or 1926.
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card for 1947.2033.5 [A-E]: '5 Irregular Quartz beads. Frosted surface'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt
Context (Analysis)
Horace Beck catalogue card for 1947.2033.5 [A-E]: 'Probably early'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt
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: Jane Pettitt
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2033.1-6: 'String of 42 quartz beads and two pendants'.
Event Date 1947
Author: Jane Pettitt
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2033.5[A-E]: '4 irregular frosted quartz beads...originally 5'.
Event Date 1947
Author: Jane Pettitt
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1947.2033.5[A-D]: 'White; Irregular'.
Event Date 15/12/1987
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
One frosted quartz bead, irregular in shape.
Event Date 14/10/2022
Author: Jane Pettitt
FM:299842
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