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Necklace
Italic, Etruscan
Hellenistic Period
3rd century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Gold and glass
Dimensions
Length: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession Number13.2879
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Necklaces and neck bands
DescriptionComposed of small bars of gold alternating with two rows of blue glass beads. In the center, four gold pendants decorated with rosettes and human heads. See 13.2860.
ProvenanceAbout 1879, discovered on property belonging to the Count Lucioli, Chiusi, Italy (one of a group of objects said to have been found together in a tomb near Chiusi, probably in the Colle Lucioli just east of Chiusi, MFA 13.2860-13.2901, 13.6077-6081). By 1913: with Raoul Tolentino, 57 Via Sistina, Rome; purchased by MFA from Raoul Tolentino, November 6, 1913