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LOT 0962
Western Asiatic White Stone Bead Necklace
CIRCA 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
17 3/8 in. (10.5 grams, 44 cm long).
Restrung, composed of small, pale stone or shell smoothed cylinder beads. [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 and glass.
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.
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