Ancient Egypt, Ptolemaic Periods, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. A collection of ancient white faience cylindrical beads (approximately 20), green faience seed beads, and a similar number of round orange-red carnelian (chalcedony with iron oxide) beads. At the center of the necklace is a hard, black stone scaraboid pendant. Amulets of the scarab were hugely popular for over a thousand years in ancient Egypt, a symbol with staying power similar to that of the Christian cross; they seem to have been worn and carried by the living, and eventually becoming part of the elaborate battery of items to be placed into graves for protection of the dead. Size: 18" L (45.7 cm); pendant size: 1" W x 0.85" H (2.5 cm x 2.2 cm)

Provenance: private New York, USA collection; ex private collection Paris, France

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Beads have light wear/patina with some scratching to the stone scarab commensurate with age.