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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEAD NECKLACE
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC, CIRCA 7TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEAD NECKLACE LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC, CIRCA 7TH-1ST CENTURY B.C. With mainly tubular and disc-shaped blue and turquoise glazed composition beads interspersed with amulets including Ptaichos, Bes, the child god Harpocrates, a seated cat, two wedjat -eyes and a circular openwork quadruple wedjat -eye bead; and a glass bead necklace, composed of spherical and disc-shaped beads including 'eye' and mosaic glass beads, 1st millennium B.C. and later, both restrung 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) and 28 in. (71 cm.) long respectively (2)