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String of 15 disc beads Ptolemaic or Roman Period

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 10.130.3080. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 10.130.3080
Period: Ptolemaic or Roman Period
Date: 1st Century B.C. to 5th Century A.D. or later
Date range: 99 BCE – 499 CE
Materials: ['yellow glass']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), String of 15 disc beads (10.130.3080). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/213548

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Beads, string. Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 1st Century B.C. to 5th Century A.D. or later. Yellow glass. l. 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.

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Materials Paper Yellow Glass

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