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Object NameBeads
Made FromGlass
Date199 BCE-199 CE
Place MadeIran, possibly Amlash
Techniquewound
SizePendants H: 1.5 cm, W: 1.2 cm; Biconical Beads H: 1.7 cm
Accession Number74.1.5
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionPurple, amber and opaque white ribbon glass pendant beads, translucent deep blue biconical, and colorless and deep blue wound beads; some ribbon glass is heavily weathered, blue beads pitted and dull, colorless beads heavily weathered and iridescent; ribbon glass and wound glass elements. Nine flat triangular ribbon glass pendants are separated by a set of seven beads, a central blue biconical bead (18) on either side a group of three wound beads; colorless (72) bracketing a blue bead (36). Above pendants are two ribbon glass barrel beads, three wound round beads with applied trails of opaque white, two round agate beads and one modern (?) blue round bead; all separated by the series of seven smaller beads.
Provenance
Source Faradj Anavian - 1974-03-18
ceremonial costume
Imperial Workshops
1800-1899
bead
199 BCE-199 CE
bead
1400-1350 BCE
bead
900-400 BCE
necklace
after 1500 BCE