Beads
90-2-6.12
From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 90-2-6.12 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain) |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Carnelian | Stone | Agate | Red Jasper |
| 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 13 previously strung beads. one agate, one rough stone barrel bead, one red jasper, and 10 carnelian |
| Credit Line | Received from various sources, pre-1990 |
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