bead
- Museum number
- 1880.3823.a
- Description
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Cast, copper alloy bead, formed from a flat strip of metal coiled around the central hole. The bead narrows in diameter towards one end, which is decorated with incised lines parallel to the central hole; the other end is cut flat.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10.10 millimetres
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Length: 5.60 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For documentation of IM.Metal.160, see 1880.3717a.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- Collected from the site of Begram, 1834-8 (MSS Eur. E161/VII, ff.31-3).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.3823.a
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: IM.Metal.160 (British Museum no.: India Museum collection)