PARTHIAN CARNELIAN AND GOLD BEAD NECKLACE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D. 18 1/4 in. (44 grams, 46.5 cm long). Comprising: sheet-gold drum-shaped and octagonal-section beads with spherical pendants, graduated interstitial spherical or oblate carnelian beads; restrung with modern clasp. PROVENANCE: Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. LITERATURE: Cf. Marshall, F.H., Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum, London, 1911, pl.XXIV (1545). CONDITION
PARTHIAN CARNELIAN AND GOLD BEAD NECKLACE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D. 18 1/4 in. (44 grams, 46.5 cm long). Comprising: sheet-gold drum-shaped and octagonal-section beads with spherical pendants, graduated interstitial spherical or oblate carnelian beads; restrung with modern clasp. PROVENANCE: Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. LITERATURE: Cf. Marshall, F.H., Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the Department of Antiquities, British Museum, London, 1911, pl.XXIV (1545). CONDITION
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