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Group of 23 Ancient Beads

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Item Details

Description

Mediterranean; c. 3rd century BC to 1st Millennium AD. Nice group of 23 small to medium sized (mostly glass) beads.

Greatest Length; 7/8" (2.3 cm)

Provenance: The John J. Slocum Collection Mr. Slocum (1914-1997) collected most of his antiquities while serving as US cultural attache to Egypt in the 1960s. Later, he served as Assistant to the Director of The Smithsonian, was appointed by President Reagan to the Presidential Cultural Property Advisory Committee, and was a Trustee Emeritus of the Archaeological Institute of America. He was a well-respected scholar/collector, whose medieval crusader coins were sold in a single-owner sale at SothebyÂ’s, London in 1997.

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