Bead with figure of Harpokrates, Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 100 BC–100 AD, From Egypt, glass, gold foil, H. 2.9 × W. 1.3 cm (1 1/8 × 1/2 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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