Bead

32-21-483

From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 32-21-483
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Tepe Gawra
Archaeology Area Level VIII
Locus M e | level 8
Period Gawra VIII
Date Made 3700-3500 BCE
Section Near Eastern
Materials Shell | Stone | Carnelian
Description

approximately 999 beads. Natural tubular shell. Smoky quartz or obsidian rings. White stone rings and barrels. Carnelian rings and tubulars, greenish blue stone discs, etc.

one of the white stone [frit?] beads is labeled 31-52-413, but that number belongs to an accounted for black bead.

Length 184 cm
Credit Line American School Oriental Research / University Museum Expedition to Tepe Gawra, Iraq; E. A. Speiser, 1932
Other Number 5913A - Field No SF

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