String of Beads
Cape (clothing)
83-7-1.16
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 83-7-1.16 |
| 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 | 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. -43 gold beads. Begins and ends with a small gold ball. There are 11 braided gold beads separated by groups of three small gold beads. Sometimes the group of three is all gold balls, and sometimes a small biconical bead is mixed into that group. |
| Length | 37.3 cm |
| Width | 0.3 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928 |
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