String of Beads
Cape (clothing)
83-7-1.47
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | 83-7-1.47 |
Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
Archaeology Area | PG 800 |
Period | Early Dynastic III |
Date Made | 2650-2550 BCE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Carnelian | Gold | Agate |
Description | Cloak beads from the upper body of the lady Pu-Abi. collar made of triangular lapis lazuli and gold beads and gold and lapis lazuli biconical beads. Four strands below collar of lapiz lazuli, gold and carnelian tube beads. 86 strings run vertically. -30 gold, carnelian and agate beads with no real pattern, and including two pendants that, in a "cloak" would have stood out perpendicular to the strand. The strand begins and ends with a small carnelian ring. The 20 carnelian beads are pendants, squat biconicals, barrel biconicals, flattened lozenges, and barrels. The 8 gold beads are almost all flattened [one isn't] and round and rectangle in shape. There is one agate barrel bead, slightly rounded. CBS17295 is written on this object, on the 6th gold bead from the top. |
Length | 38.2 cm |
Width | 2.2 cm |
Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928 |
Other Number | B17287 - Old Museum Number | B17295 - Old Museum Number |
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