Bead

Amulet

Pendant

90-2-6

From: Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 90-2-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Tepe Gawra (uncertain) | Billa (uncertain)
Section Near Eastern
Materials Bone | Stone | Shell
Description

Unidentified beads, pendants, amulets, bead spreaders, and partial and complete necklaces made of bone, shell, stone, carnelian, agate, lapis, turquoise, paste, clay, marble, crystal, etc. Disc, barrel, ring, carinated and incised beads.

Many of these pieces were probably once strung, and catalogued as necklaces.

Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1990

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