String of 5 knobbed beads - Public domain museum image. A piece of jewelry that is on a white surface

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String of 5 knobbed beads - Public domain museum image. A piece of jewelry that is on a white surface

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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

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

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