Roman or Parthian carnelian necklace

1 century AD

Composed of globular carnelian beads ranging from dark brown to dark orange in color. Conical opening, beads are drilled from both ends. Some beads have shallow slit across the opening at one or both ends to prevent drilling device from slipping.
Necklace is 17.5″ ( 44.5 cm) long (with lobster claw clasps).

For similar published beads in museum collections see:
– Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 36 #25
– Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 38: 17, 18.