Gold foil

301NA
Hellenistic gold-foil glass necklace
2-1 century BCE
Eastern Mediterranean or Persia 

Composed of 30 barrel beads, all formed from the segments of gold-in-glass tubes. Interspersed with segmented gold-glass beads with smooth ends. 
All beads are intact, in good condition for its age and few beads with minor cracks. 

Largest bead: D. 8 mm, H. 8 mm
Necklace is 18.2" ( 46.2 cm) long (without clasps).

For similar published examples in museum collections see:

- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 138: #230
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 26: 12; 73,74.
- 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. 218: #298