bead
- Museum number
- 1880.3695.a-e
- Description
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Five hollow, tabular beads made of thin hammered gold, pierced horizontally.
- Production date
- 1stC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6 millimetres (average)
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Height: 2 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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South Kensington Museum no.1078/India Museum no.60 lists 'Twenty-one fragments of gold ornaments'; which were registered separately on entry into the British Museum as IM.Metal.104-110 'Gold disks (7) small, mostly double like nos 82 to 91 [see 1880.3691], but smaller'; and IM.Metal.111-124 (14 miscellaneous gold ornaments, see 1880.3696.a). For a discussion of the finds from BImaran Stupa 2 relic deposit, see 1900,0209.1. For other finds from the same site, see also 1880.27, 1880.3690, 1880.3691, 1880.3696, 1880.3851, 1880.3855, 1880.3893, 1880.3982; IOC 201-IOC.204.
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E. Errington: 1027 pan-shaped, perforated discs like 18880.3695.a-e and 1880.3691.a-i, but open at the back, were excavated from Tillya Tepe burial 3 (Sarianidi 1985, pp.237, 240, nos.13, 38).
- Location
- On display (G33/dc51a/s2)
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.3695.a-e
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1078 (South Kensington Museum no.)
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Miscellaneous number: 60 (India Museum no.)
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Miscellaneous number: IM.Metal.104-110 (British Museum no.: India Museum collection)