String of Beads
90-2-6.4
From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 90-2-6.4 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain) |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Lapis Lazuli | Stone | Carnelian |
| Description | Part of a large group of unidentified beads, pendants, amulets, bead spreaders, and partial and complete necklaces made of bone, shell, stone, carnelian, agate, lapis, turquoise, paste, clay, marble, crystal, etc. Disc, barrel, ring, carinated and incised beads. Many of these pieces were probably once strung, and catalogued as necklaces. This group is 5 beads of various stones, including lapis and carnelian |
| Credit Line | Received from various sources, pre-1990 |
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