Beads
String of Beads
90-2-6.10
From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 90-2-6.10 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain) |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | 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 a string of 30 beads, and 18 loose carnelian beads. some are biconical, some are barrel, and some are just beads |
| Credit Line | Received from various sources, pre-1990 |
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