Egyptian faience & carnelian necklace

1 century AD

Egypt

Composed of two faience melon, biconical beads flanking lion amulet in the middle, 4 globular carnelian beads and multiple small cylindrical faience beads. Carnelian beads are drilled from both ends with opposed conical openings. All beads are from the same period and culture. Good condition, ancient loss of the lion's base corner, all beads are intact with no restoration.

Lion amulet: L. 23 mm, H. 12 mm

Necklace is 18.5" ( 47 cm) long (with clasps)

For similar published beads in museum collections see:

- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 212 #295

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 5:26-30, table 11, 19.