String of Beads
Cape (clothing)
83-7-1.86
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 83-7-1.86 |
| 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. -161 small carnelian rings. |
| Length | 33.6 cm |
| Width | 0.7 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928 |
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