Mastery of Design: A Middle Eastern Garnet Necklace, 1st C.

Necklace
The British Museum

A necklace of turquoise, gold and garnets, this piece was excavated in the Middle East and dates to the First Century. The piece was restrung in the Nineteenth Century at which time gold glass beads were added. The positioning of the pendants, as noted in a 1968 inventory of the British Museum, may have been changed at the time of the re-stringing.