String of Beads
Cape (clothing)
83-7-1.78
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 83-7-1.78 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Period | Early Dynastic III |
| Date Made | 2650-2550 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Carnelian |
| Description | Cloak beads from the upper body of the lady Pu-Abi. collar made of triangular lapis lazuli and gold beads and gold and lapis lazuli biconical beads. Four strands below collar of lapiz lazuli, gold and carnelian tube beads. 86 strings run vertically. -21 carnelian beads. Strand begins and ends with small carnelian ring, then between alternates between a squat biconical and a barrel/biconical bead, beginning and ending with the long shape. One of the central barrel beads is covered in bronze from its proximity to a different object. |
| Length | 38.3 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928 |
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