bead;
eye-stone
- Museum number
- 135086
- Description
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String of beads; one oval cornelian bead, two uninscribed banded chaldecony or onyx eye-stones, two shell (?) "eye-stones" and eleven gold spacers.
- Production date
- 5thC BC-4thC BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1 centimetres (chalcedony/onyx)
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Diameter: 0.20 centimetres (gold)
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Length: 1.80 centimetres (cornelian)
- Curator's comments
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Found with 1969,0211.17 (BM.135088).
Found with 1969,0211.18 (BM.135089).
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Uninscribed eye-stones are found much more widely than the inscribed examples which are only known from Mesopotamia; whether the present example was made in Iran or not is uncertain.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
G2/170, from 13 Apr-Dec 2006.
G52/IRAN/8/14(part), from official opening 17/11/95.
G49/IRAN/8/29, 16 Jun-23 Dec 1994.
Iranian Room [IR] case ?, no. 40, Jul 1975-ca 1990.
- Acquisition date
- 1969
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 135086
- Registration number
- 1969,0211.15
- Additional IDs
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Excavation/small finds number: 1963 (excavation number)