Gold foil

275NA
Hellenistic gold-foil glass necklace
2-1 century BCE
Eastern Mediterranean or Persia 

Composed of compressed spherical beads, all segments of gold-in-glass sandwich tubes, cut and finished by grinding. 
All beads are intact, in good condition and few beads with minor cracks or surface loss. 

Largest bead: D. 9 mm, H. 8 mm
Necklace is 20" ( 50.8 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. 136: #230
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 26: 4
- 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. 155: #200