Object Description
A beautiful Western Asiatic gold pendant, featuring a stack of beads of various materials and sizes. At the top is a tubular suspension loop, which displays a continuous spiral striate pattern. This is connected with looped gold wires to a spherical deep red garnet bead framed by two granulated gold discs. A turquoise bead with beautiful striations follow, and a gold bead composed of two granulated bands finish the stack.
The width of the garnet bead is 0.8cm. Measurements below measure from the widest part (the top loop).
Date: 1st millennium BC- 1st millennium AD