Description (Physical description)
Horace Beck catalogue card: 'Broken black white faience zone bead.'
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by the British Museum expedition (1927-1931), directed by Reginald Campbell Thompson.
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (References)
Beck, H.C. (1931). ‘Beads from Nineveh’. Antiquity, vol 5(20). pp. 427-437
Event Date 1931
Author: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1947.2195[.1-2]: 'Two beads probably of Jemdet Nasr period before 3500 BC. One is an irregular bead of bitumen (Beck No.2117) and the other is a broken black and white faience zone bead (Beck No.2118)'
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: Emily Shorter

Description (Physical description)
A cylindrical faience bead, with one black stripe in between two white stripes.
Event Date 18/10/2022
Author: Emily Shorter