Ca. 100-300 AD. Roman. A beautiful necklace made of two strings of carnelian and blue glass rectangular and flat beads with gold flat beads and three incised rectangular gold inserts, one of which functions as a pendant. Restrung and fully wearable. Necklaces and bracelets were part of the feminine costume in the Roman world and some examples can be seen faithfully illustrated, for instance, in the female painted mummy portraits from Roman Egypt; ancient sculptures too sometimes show bejewelled women of the Roman period - see, for instance, the splendid series of carved reliefs from the city of Palmyra, in modern Syria. To find out more about Roman jewellery, see, for example, Higgins, R. (1980). Greek and Roman jewellery. London: Methuen. Size: L:280mm / W:mm ; 22g. Provenance: From the collection of a gentleman based in London; formerly with a British gallery; acquired in the 1990s.