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LOT 1226
Ancient Stone Bead Necklace String
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
19 3/4 in. (20 grams, 50 cm).
Restrung group of graduated tubular, annular, fusiform and other beads in stone, shell, and ceramic beads. [No Reserve]
Provenance
UK gallery, early 2000s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Hussein, M.M., Altaweel, M., Gibson, McGuire, Nimrud The Queen’s Tombs, Baghdad-Chicago, 2016, pl.163, for similar necklaces of stone.
Footnotes
Similar beads were found in the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi (for example those of Nimrud’s Queens) probably originally composed as wide collars with multiple strands.
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