Bead with figure of a goddes (Aphrodite Anadyomene?), Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 100 BC–100 AD, From Egypt, glass, gold foil, H. 2.5 × W. 1 cm (1 × 3/8 in.), Gold glass beads were a Hellenistic development. They were created by combining drawn tubes of colorless glass with gold foil. The earliest examples were finished bead by bead. These are all modern stringings; most ancient stringing patterns are lost as the string decays
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Bead, figure, goddes, Aphrodite Anadyomene?, Ptolemaic, Roman Period, 100 BC–100 AD, Egypt, glass, gold foil, H, 2.5, W, 1 cm, 1, 3/8, Gold glass, beads, Hellenistic development, created, combining drawn, tubes, colorless, earliest examples, finished bead, bead, modern stringings, ancient stringing, patterns, lost, string decays
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