Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: '4 on string. Barrel. Oblate and short cylinder.'
Event Date
Author: Lily Stancliffe

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: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1947.2124 [A-G]: 'Thirteen obsidian beads of various shapes and dates though some are thought to be of the early period.'
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: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Analysis)
In August 2015, Prof. Stuart Campbell and Dr Elizabeth Healey, University of Manchester, tested this obsidian (1947.2124) using a portable XRF as part of a programme of obsidian source analysis of Middle Eastern material.
Event Date 20/5/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
String of four obsidian beads. Two disc shaped, one ellipsoid, one annular and chipped.
Event Date 14/10/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe