String of Beads
Cape (clothing)
83-7-1.81
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 83-7-1.81 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Period | Early Dynastic III |
| Date Made | 2650-2550 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Lapis Lazuli | 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. -53 alternating gold and lapis beads, beginning and ending with a gold bead. The 26 lapis beads are all barrel shaped of various degrees of biconical. The 27 gold beads are all very small, and mainly squat biconical but some are balls. |
| Length | 37.8 cm |
| Width | 0.5 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1928 |
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