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Necklace with crystal beads, Bronze Age Cypriot jewelry
Necklace with crystal beads, Bronze Age Cypriot, c. 3900 BC–100 AD. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 74.51.3387.Open Access by the MET

Bronze Age

Necklace with crystal beads

Other (71 elements): 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm) Diameter (pendant): 3/8 × 1 1/16 in. (0.9 × 2.6 cm) Diameter (largest crystal bead): 1/2 in. (1.3 cm) Diameter (smallest chrystal bead): 1/4 in. (0.6 cm) Diameter (largest gold bead): 3/8 in. (0.9 cm) Diameter (smallesr gold bead): 1/8 in. (0.4 cm) Diameter (2 spacers): 1/16 × 3/16 in. (0.2 × 0.5 cm)

Classification

Object type
Jewellery
Materials
StoneSemi-precious stone, MetalGold
Date
3900 BC - 100 AD

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Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

Identifiers

Accession no.
74.51.3387, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues
Myres 1914, no. 3387

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