Description

This unusual string of beads has elements from the Middle Kingdom (the lapis lazuli beads), the Ptolemaic (the glass joiners), and the Romans, who seem to have added the carnelian pendant.  With such an array of periods and materials, there is a possibility that the set is a hundred-year-old pastiche, though there is also the chance that the beads were brought together during Roman times.

The size of the string, only 15.5 cm, makes this an unlikely necklace for an adult, but at the same time, suggests it would have been too big for a bracelet.  Could the pretty little string of antique and 'modern' beads have been a gift for a child?