Western Asiatic Carnelian and Other Bead Collection

1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER

1/8 - 5/8 in. (102 grams total, 5-15 mm).

Comprising a variety of beads mainly in carnelian and glass, including oblate, cylindrical, discoid and other types.

Provenance

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Literature

Cf. Then-Obłuska, J., ‘Trade and faith in Nubian Early Makuria (AD 450–550): macroscopic examination of personal adornments from El-Zuma in Nubia’ in Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, January, 2016, pp.741-760, fig.4.

Footnotes

Carnelian beads were diffused in West from the Iranian and other Western Asiatic countries. During Antiquity, the beads were transported from their places of manufacture in India and Persian Empires, and archaeological and literary sources provide evidence of the high prosperity of the Red Sea ports as well as of their trade contact with the Indo-Pacific regions.

CONDITION

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LOT 1272