String of Beads
Cape (clothing)
83-7-1.50
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 83-7-1.50 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Period | Early Dynastic III |
| Date Made | 2650-2550 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Gold | Lapis Lazuli |
| 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. -50 alternating lapis and gold beads, beginning and ending with lapis. The 26 lapis beads are squat biconcial beads and alternate one to one with the gold, but for one place that has two lapis in a row. The 24 gold beads are mainly barrel-biconical of various sizes. CBS17057 is written above the museum number. |
| Length | 37.3 cm |
| Width | 0.5 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928 |
| Other Number | B17059 - Old Museum Number |
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