A WESTERN ASIATIC GOLD, CARNELIAN, AGATE AND LAPIS LAZULI BEAD NECKLACE
A WESTERN ASIATIC GOLD, CARNELIAN, AGATE AND LAPIS LAZULI BEAD NECKLACE

CIRCA 2ND MILLENIUM B.C.

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A WESTERN ASIATIC GOLD, CARNELIAN, AGATE AND LAPIS LAZULI BEAD NECKLACE
CIRCA 2ND MILLENIUM B.C.
Composed of twenty disk-shaped and rectangular carnelian beads, with forty cylindrical, disk-shaped and rectangular lapis lazuli beads, four disk-shaped banded agate beads and four gold quadruple-spirals, centered by three winged carnelian beads interspersed with two diamond-shaped lapis lazuli and six white stone and carnelian disk-shaped beads; with a modern hoop at each end
26 in. (66 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired by the current owner in 1980.

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