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The Sefertepe Bead Assemblage

Sefertepe's bead assemblage is a strong small-find layer, but individual objects, materials, counts, and findspots should stay separated. Materials: jade; serpentine; limestone; igneous labradorite; bone.

Site: SefertepeType: beads / symbolic small finds
Sefertepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Sefertepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)

Frantisek Trampota, Sefer Tepe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What's actually there

Category: beads / symbolic small finds Materials: jade; serpentine; limestone; igneous labradorite; bone Forms: disc/round; micro disc/round; quadrilateral; drop-shaped; animal-head/snakehead Count: beads are numerically dominant; exact count not captured Context status: site-level assemblage; exact findspots not captured Open: Split into individual bead records when catalog/figure list is available. Details

What to notice

What's carved on it

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?