String of Beads
Cape (clothing)
83-7-1.2
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 83-7-1.2 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Archaeology Area | PG 800 |
| 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. -20 carnelian beads of various types. It begins and ends with a small carnelian ring, and most could be described as biconical, but some are long--like barrel beads, and some are very squat. |
| Length | 37.8 cm |
| Width | 1.5 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928 |
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