Beads
85-48-53
From: Iraq | Nippur (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 85-48-53 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Nippur (uncertain) |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Paste | Glass | Turquoise | Ceramic | Limestone (uncertain) |
| Technique | Incised |
| Description | 15 loose assorted beads; 1 faience pressed flower-shape; 1 blue glass; 1 incised turquoise; 1 shell with blue glass bead attached; 1 diamond-shaped ceramic; 1 pyramid limestone? 6 paste; 1 miniature blue paste; 1 scalloped; 1 crude ceramic disc with 4 holes. -16 beads. one shell (conus) top, attached to a small lapis bead. one flower (paste? faience?); one blue glass round drop pendant; one turquoise inscised bead, almost like a scarab (one flat side); one stone diamond bead, drilled through the long side; one clay disk with four holes, like a button; one glazed hollow box; one glazed clay pyramid, with a hole on interior for stringing; one granade-like flower; one paste bird single joiner; one shell bird pendant; one glass round bead undrilled; one white paste bead undrilled; one stone bead like a scarab with no inscription on the bottom; one ceramic bead |
| Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur I-IV, 1888-1900 |
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