1420FN4   Egyptian faience & carnelian necklace 
                  1 century BCE to 1 century CE
                  Egypt

Necklace restrung with 23 faience melon beads and 24 globular carnelian beads. Carnelian beads are drilled from both ends with opposed conical openings. All beads are from the same period and culture.
Good condition, all beads are intact with no restoration. 
Largest bead: diameter 21 mm,  H. 18 mm
Necklace is 18" ( 45.7 cm) long (with clasps)

For similar published beads in museum collections see:
- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 212 #295
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 5:28

$ 900

1421FN1   Egyptian blue faience & carnelian necklace 
                  1 century BCE to 1 century CE
                  Egypt

Composed of 8 faience melon beads, 3 faience amphora amulets, 2 faience double chamber amulets, 14 globular carnelian beads and multiple small cylindrical faience beads. Carnelian beads are drilled from both ends with opposed conical openings. All beads are from the same period and culture.
Good condition, all beads and amulets are intact with no restoration. 
Largest amphora amulet: diameter 9 mm,  H. 21 mm
Necklace is 17.5" ( 44.5 cm) long (with clasps).

For similar published beads in museum collections see:
- Tombodama Art Museum, 1996, p.14 cat. 7-d, no.49-b
- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 212 #295
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 5:28, table 11:45, 42.

$ 1200

1431FN   Egyptian faience & carnelian necklace 
                1 century BCE to 1 century 

Necklace restrung with faience amulets and beads: 6 faience bi-conical beads, 2 faience melon amulets, one faience lion amulet, 4 carnelian spherical beads and over 100 small faience cylindrical beads. All beads are guaranteed authentic, about 2000 years old. Cord is modern.
Good condition for its age, ancient worn out of the top of lion amulet, all beads are intact with no restoration. 
Lion bead: L. 24 mm, W. 16 mm, H. 14 mm
Necklace is 18.5" ( 47 cm) long.

For similar published beads in museum collections see:

- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 212 #295
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 11: 20, tbl. 5:28

SOLD

1440GN  Hellenistic glass necklace
                2 - 1 century BCE
                Rhodos

Composed of 13 melon with longitudinal ribs and 25 globular beads, graduated in size, transparent glass with purple tint. Interspersed with purple glass beads. All beads are intact, in good condition and some glass beads are iridescent. 
Max diameter of the largest bead: 16 mm
Height: 15 mm
Necklace is 19" ( 48.3 cm) long

During the excavation of an ancient house in the city of Rhodes (1966-1967), a large amount of debris from a glass factory was recovered. The main production was evidently devoted to bead-making. Thousands of beads were discovered and the similar beads were among them. See full report in:
- G. D. Weinberg, “Glass Manufacture in Hellenistic Rhodes,” Archaiologikon Deltion 24 (1969), pp. 143-151, pl. 76
For similar published examples see also:
- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 218: #298-23
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 33: 49.
- D.Nenna, Exploration archeologique de Delos, 32: Les verres, Paris, Athenes, EFA, De Boccard, 1999, pl.53: E137

$ 825

1441GN   Roman gold glass necklace
                 1 century BCE- 1 century 
                 Mediterranean or Iran

Composed of large barrel shaped beads, all segments of gold in glass tubes, with finished ends by grinding. Interspersed with segmented gold-glass beads with smooth ends. All beads are intact, in good condition and few beads are with minor cracks or small area of outer layer missing. 
Central segmented bead: D. 6 mm, L. 16 mm. Necklace is 18.6" ( 47.3 cm) long (without clasps).

For similar published beads in museum collections see:
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 136-138: #230, 238
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 26: 2; 3; 8
- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 155: #200

SOLD