Beads
Spindle Whorl (uncertain)
90-2-6.7
From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 90-2-6.7 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain) |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Paste (uncertain) | Stone | Shell | 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 contains 1 possible spindle whor (shell)l, 15 beads made of stone and paste and shell including one carnelian bead. |
| Credit Line | Received from various sources, pre-1990 |
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