Gold Bead Necklace

Gold Bead Necklace

Description:

Fourteen gold beads from a necklace; eleven round examples hammered from sheet metal and soldered; three ribbed cylinders composed of plain gold wire spiralled into shape and soldered.


Dimensions: Diameter: 0.40 millimetres round ; Length: 0.90 centimetres cylinders ; Weight: 1.95 grammes; Weight: 30 grains


Object Type: necklace


Techniques: hammered; soldered

Period:

Late Bronze Age I

Date:

1650 - 1050 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Episkopi-Bamboula

Accession Number:

1896,0201.266