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CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
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A PHOENICIAN GLASS EYE BEAD NECKLACE
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
Composed of twenty-eight globular glass eye beads, primarily pale green in color with compound eyes in blue on white and amber, interspersed with thirty-four Byzantine spherical rosette-patterned sheet gold beads, circa 5th century A.D., and eight gold glass beads, all graduated in size; strung with a modern S-hook-and-loop closure
16 7/8 in. (42.9 cm.) long
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
Composed of twenty-eight globular glass eye beads, primarily pale green in color with compound eyes in blue on white and amber, interspersed with thirty-four Byzantine spherical rosette-patterned sheet gold beads, circa 5th century A.D., and eight gold glass beads, all graduated in size; strung with a modern S-hook-and-loop closure
16 7/8 in. (42.9 cm.) long
Provenance
Acquired by the owner in the U.S., 1995.