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String of 12 elongated disc beads

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Gold glass beads were a Hellenistic development. They were created by combining drawn tubes of colorless glass with gold foil. The earliest examples were finished bead by bead. These are all modern stringings; most ancient stringing patterns are lost as the string decays.
From Egypt
Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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