String of 29 Beads, Ptolemaic Period or Roman Period, 200 BC–200 AD, From Egypt, glass, gold foil, L. 8.6 cm (3 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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String, 29 Beads, Ptolemaic Period, Roman, 200 BC–200 AD, Egypt, glass, gold foil, L, 8.6 cm, 3 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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