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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