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Egyptian Faience Bead Necklace
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Origin
- Egypt
- Period
- c. 300–50 BC
- Object
- Necklace
- Materials
- Faience
- Dimensions
- 47 cm long
- Catalogue
- ANT-066
From the collector
The two bicone beads and the centre drop pendant on this strand are not stone like those on ANT-067 — they are deep-blue cobalt glass, and most likely Roman or Romano-Egyptian rather than Egyptian faience.A single-strand necklace of ancient Egyptian faience beads.
Provenance
Secret Eyes Gallery, New York, 1970s–1980sComparanda
- String of 22 Beads, Roman Period Egypt, 30 BC–AD 364, glass — Metropolitan Museum 10.130.3185 — near-identical bicone beads. The Met record gives period, place and medium only; reading these particular beads as dark-blue cobalt bicones is mine, not theirs
Acquired
Palmyra Heritage Gallery · 2026
