String of 12 elongated disc beads
Unknown
2nd century BC–2nd century AD · glass, gold foil · Egyptian Art
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.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 2nd century BC–2nd century AD
- Medium
- glass, gold foil
- Department
- Egyptian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910
