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Western Asiatic White Stone Bead Necklace
Western Asiatic White Stone Bead Necklace
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Circa 1st millennium B.C. Restrung, composed of small, pale stone or shell smoothed cylinder beads. 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. 10.5 grams, 44 cm long (17 3/8 in.).

UK gallery, early 2000s.

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. [No Reserve]

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Western Asiatic White Stone Bead Necklace

Estimate £30 - £40
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Starting Price £5
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