Bead with figure of Harpokrates
Summary
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.
From Egypt
Ptolemaic or Roman Period
Tags
Date
0000
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)