2436c detail etched carnelian beads. Parthian or Sassanian Empire

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Posted by Ann Porteus on October 9, 2011 at 6:57am

Eva Baby October 10, 2011 at 10:06am

Beautiful!!!!
Ann Porteus October 10, 2011 at 10:51am

Thanks Eva,
I have had them for a long time. I bring them out and look at them, sometimes I share the look with others. Then the old Afghani man I bought them from died and I feel more free. He was a wonderful old man and suffered as a foreigner in Bangkok but always had beautiful things for me. They are little and worn with lots of old chips but they have come from the ground and I love them. They feel very old and I really would like to know more.
It is fantastic to know that the little individual beads may have been through many different generations during the past 2000 years.
Ann Porteus October 10, 2011 at 11:19am

Thank you, they are special and beautiful little beads
Eva Baby October 10, 2011 at 11:33am

@Thanks Anne, for the information, they are really lovely and special, have never seen such before,

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