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MAINLY 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
Details
A WESTERN ASIATIC AGATE BEAD NECKLACE
MAINLY 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
Composed of mainly large lentoid and biconical beads, some beads later; and a mosaic glass bead necklace, including chequerboard pattern beads, cylindrical and disc millefiori beads, with a lapis lazuli square pendant dropper with stepped sides and incised decoration, some beads later, 1st millennium B.C./Roman period and later, both restrung
23 in. (58.5 cm.) and 24 in. (61 cm.) long respectively (2)
MAINLY 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
Composed of mainly large lentoid and biconical beads, some beads later; and a mosaic glass bead necklace, including chequerboard pattern beads, cylindrical and disc millefiori beads, with a lapis lazuli square pendant dropper with stepped sides and incised decoration, some beads later, 1st millennium B.C./Roman period and later, both restrung
23 in. (58.5 cm.) and 24 in. (61 cm.) long respectively (2)
Provenance
Acquired in Europe in the early 1980s.
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