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necklace

Object NameNecklace

Made FromGlass, Glazed Faience

Date999 BCE-999 CE

Place MadeEgypt

Technique(glass) wound, trailed, inlaid; (faience) molded

SizeEstimate Necklace Diam: 21 cm

Accession Number68.1.10

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Thomas S. Wood

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Not On View

Physical Description(Glass) deep blue translucent, turquoise blue translucent, green transparent or translucent, deep blue and opaque white, bluish green translucent with opaque white and blue "eyes", very pale yellowish brown transparent, cased with translucent white; (faience) green, turquoise blue, pale gray with blue and purple eye; (stone) blue transparent, pale brown translucent;(glass) wound, trailed, inlaid; (faience) molded; (stone) tumbled, drilled. Necklace: 65 beads of various materials, shapes, and colors. At center, crescxentic turquoise blue faience bead; to one side of this (from center outward), spheroid brown alabaster bead, tubular turquoise blue glass bead, spheroid blue stone bead, tubular green glass bead, ovoid deep blue glass bead, and spheroid pale gray faience bead with blue and purple eye; to other side of crescent (again from center outward), oblate spheroid green glass bead with blue and white eyes, tubular turquoise blue glass bead, spheroid deep blue glass bead with white stripe, turquoise blue faience bead, roughly ovoid deep blue glass bead, and ovoid brown glass bead cased with white; rest of necklace consists of 52 tubular green or (mostly) turquoise blue faience beads.
Provenance

Source Mrs. Thomas S. Wood - 1968

Former Collection Museum of Art, Penn State University