String of Beads
B16125
From: Iraq | Nippur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | B16125 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iraq | Nippur |
Archaeology Area | COFFIN 102 |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Paste | Shell | Carnelian | Agate |
Description | CBS Register: necklace. double string. 36". Paste and shell. coffin 102 12/19/94. mounted by Mrs. C.H. Dam (no 56a) -several broken in box. double string. 241 strung beads.One pendant is a conus section. both are mainly paste beads, some duck spacers, someblue "pomegranates", some barrel paste beads with incised decorations. Some flat paste beads that no longer contain glaze, but could have been Eye beads. One shell bead, one broken carnelian circle. 3 carnelian drop pendants. One double joiner. one agate barrel bead. one carnelian barrel bead, one carnelian biconical bead. one fragment of a rock crystal bead. one amethyst (?) barrel. |
Credit Line | Babylonian Expedition to Nippur III, 1896 |
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