String of Beads

B16131

From: Iraq | Nippur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number B16131
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Nippur
Section Near Eastern
Materials Glass | Copper | Carnelian | Lapis Lazuli | Stone
Description

CBS Register: necklace. single string. 38 beads, stone, glass, lapis, carnelian, etc. from the court of columns.

-37 strung beads [one is broken and strung, so maybe it was counted as two when registered?] one bronze, one carnelian barrel bead, moste are alternating with small lapis beads. one green jasper (?).

Credit Line Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896

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