A ROMAN CARNELIAN AND GOLD BEAD NECKLACE
A ROMAN CARNELIAN AND GOLD BEAD NECKLACE

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN CARNELIAN AND GOLD BEAD NECKLACE
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Composed of thirty carnelian disk-shaped beads interspersed with nine hollow gold sheet disk-shaped beads; strung with a modern openwork palmette hook-and-loop closure
16½ in. (41.9 cm.) long
Provenance
European Private Collection, acquired in the 1980s.

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