String of Beads

Cape (clothing)

83-7-1.47

Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries

From: Iraq | Ur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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