String of Beads
Cape (clothing)
83-7-1.70
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 83-7-1.70 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Period | Early Dynastic III |
| Date Made | 2650-2550 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Gold |
| 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. -41 gold beads. Begins with three gold balls, and ends with a braided bead. There are 10 braided gold beads separated by groups of three small gold beads, but one grouping is 4 balls. Sometimes the group of three is all gold balls, and sometimes a small biconical bead is mixed into that group. |
| Length | 35.5 cm |
| Width | 0.5 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928 |
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