String of 52 Beads, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)
Summary
Gold glass beads were a Hellenistic development. They were, created by combining drawn tubes of colorless glass with gold foil. The earliest examples were finished bead by bead. These are all modern stringings; most ancient stringing patterns are lost as the string decays.
Possibly from Egypt
Ptolemaic or Roman Period
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Date
0000
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)