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LOT 0841
Roman Green and Red Glass Bead Necklace String
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
24 in. (24.9 grams, 61 cm long).
Composed of mainly annular and oblate red glass beads interspersed with larger green glass beads; restrung. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the London, UK, art market in the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
For examples of similar green Roman beads see Then-Obluska, J., ‘Beads and pendants from the Hellenistic to early Byzantine Red Sea port of Berenike, Egypt, Seasons 2014 and 2015’ in Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, pp.203–234, figs.3a, 4,5,7; for examples of similar red beads fig.4 nos.7-8-9 and 16-23.
FootnotesIn the Roman period there was a strong formal and chromatic diversity of glass beads used for necklaces and bracelets. The most common beads in forms were small biconical (lenticular), barrel-shaped, spherical and annular; the most common colours were dark blue, followed by green and yellow, and red. The succession of glass beads often imitates jewellery made of costly materials (gold, silver, semi-precious and precious stones).
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