A SUMERIAN GOLD, LAPIS AND CARNELIAN NECKLACE
A SUMERIAN GOLD, LAPIS AND CARNELIAN NECKLACE

CIRCA MID 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A SUMERIAN GOLD, LAPIS AND CARNELIAN NECKLACE
Circa Mid 3rd Millennium B.C.
Composed of nine large lapis lazuli melon-shaped beads, six gold fluted beads each formed of six folded sheet disks joined to a tube, with twisted wire rimming the suspension holes, eighteen carnelian biconical beads and six small gold truncated convex biconical beads
30 in. (76.2 cm) long