Western Asiatic Stone and Shell Bead Necklace

CIRCA 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER

18 1/8 in. (19.3 grams, 48 cm long).

Composed mainly of cream-coloured restrung stone and shell beads of amorphous, annular, spherical, barrel-shaped and other types. [No Reserve]

Provenance

UK gallery, early 2000s.

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 during the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi, including those of Nimrud’s Queens; they probably originally formed part of wide collars with multiple strands.

CONDITION

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