CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

This necklace is composed of 25 embossed elements featuring addorsed birds, perhaps ducks. They are joined by a loop-in-loop chain affixed to the back. The hook-and-loop closure has triangular terminals each embossed with a cantharus. This type of necklace exists throughout the Roman Empire; some examples were found in Egypt, while others were excavated as far afield as Taxila, in modern-day Pakistan (see Ogden, op. cit., p. 192, fig. 319 for an example in a private collection and fig. 320 for one at Dumbarton Oaks).