Beads

90-2-6.13

From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 90-2-6.13
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain)
Section Near Eastern
Materials Frit
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 5 glazed paste/frit beads

Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1990

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