Bead

Museum number:
9-18736
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4485
Description:
Fat, doughnut-shaped bead with a small perforation. The surface is smooth with a warm, soft luster. Diameter 16.5 mm; thickness, 13.0 mm; diameter of perforation, 1.5-2. mm. Translucent, sky-blue chalcedony with opaque white streaks. Cut, bored (from both sides) and polished. Blue chalcedony for seals is common during the late Babylonian and Achaemenid periods, but conspicuously missing from Sassanian contexts. Known sources are in Turkey and the islands.
Donor:
Dariush Arasteh
Collection place:
Estakhr, Fars Province, Southwest Iran
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 9-18736, described as Fat, doughnut-shaped bead with a small perforation. The surface is smooth with a warm, soft luster. Diameter 16.5 mm; thickness, 13.0 mm; diameter of perforation, 1.5-2. mm. Translucent, sky-blue chalcedony with opaque white streaks. Cut, bored (from both sides) and polished. Blue chalcedony for seals is common during the late Babylonian and Achaemenid periods, but conspicuously missing from Sassanian contexts. Known sources are in Turkey and the islands.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bead, accession number 9-18736, described as Fat, doughnut-shaped bead with a small perforation. The surface is smooth with a warm, soft luster. Diameter 16.5 mm; thickness, 13.0 mm; diameter of perforation, 1.5-2. mm. Translucent, sky-blue chalcedony with opaque white streaks. Cut, bored (from both sides) and polished. Blue chalcedony for seals is common during the late Babylonian and Achaemenid periods, but conspicuously missing from Sassanian contexts. Known sources are in Turkey and the islands.

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