Necklace w/ Egyptian Gold, Faience, Stone, & Scarabs

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to Late Dynastic Period, 21st to 31st Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A wonderful necklace of wearable form that is constructed from dozens of stone and faience beads in tubular and seed-shaped forms. Interspersed throughout the necklace are 4 steatite scarab pendants - each with insectile features and incised hieroglyphs - as well as a 2-sided scaraboid pendant with matching hieroglyphs on each face, and 7 fluted beads are each formed from 75.6% to 78.5% gold. The terminals are capped with a pair of articulated clasps to enable the wearability of the necklace. Size (necklace): 21.3" L (54.1 cm); (scaraboid pendant): 0.62" L x 0.47" W (1.6 cm x 1.2 cm); gold quality: 75.6% to 78.5% (equivalent to 18K+)

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Dara Mayers collection, New York, USA, acquired 2000s

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#169057
Condition Report: Wearable as shown and strung in modern times. Faience beads, gold beads, scaraboid pendant, and scarabs are ancient; stringing and clasps are modern. Minor nicks and abrasions to some beads and scarabs, with fading and light encrustations, and softening to some finer details inscribed on scarabs and scaraboid, otherwise intact and very good. Great preservation to glaze color on faience, and nice luster to gold beads. Gold beads cannot be weighed without unstringing the entire composition.