A ROMAN GOLD AND GLASS BEAD NECKLACE WITH A CENTRAL GOLD MEDALLION OF A GORGONEION, CIRCA 2ND/4TH CENTURY A.D.

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Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Property from a Swiss Private Collection

A ROMAN GOLD AND GLASS BEAD NECKLACE WITH A CENTRAL GOLD MEDALLION OF A GORGONEION, CIRCA 2ND/4TH CENTURY A.D.

Length 36.7 cm

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Nicolas Tano, Cairo

Carl Leonhardt Burkhardt (b. 1902, Basel, d. 1965, Alexandria), acquired from the above, February 4th, 1944

thence by descent

This type of gold and glass necklace was popular in Roman Egypt, as is evidenced by its appearance on mummy portraits such as this one formerly sold by Sotheby’s: https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/antiquities-n08104/lot.97.html?locale=en. For a related necklace from Roman Egypt now in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, see https://collections.lacma.org/node/230163.