Mid 2 Millennium B.C.
Necklace consists of: twelve cylindrical cast beads with alternating sections of wound spirals and serpentine; five double disc beads with concentric circles with granule in centers; twenty four arched beads with two granules at the ends; four arched beads with concentric circles; fourteen semi-globular beads. 19.3″ (48.9 cm).
Christie’s, NY, Ancient Jewelry, 12/05/2001, lot 22.
For published archaeological analogies see:
-Arheologiya. Epoha bronzi Kavkaza i Sredney Asii. Rannyaya i srednyaya bronza Kavkaza, vol.2, Moscow, 1994, p. 265; t. 77: 17, 20, 22; t.80: 39