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Source Description
This gold profiled tube served as a spacer on a necklace (similar to Walters 57.1600) to keep pendants separate from one another. The smooth areas seem to have been worked on a lathe; the patterns are chased. No seams are visible.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
10593
label
Spacer Bead
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
10593
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Spacer Bead
description
This gold profiled tube served as a spacer on a necklace (similar to Walters 57.1600) to keep pendants separate from one another. The smooth areas seem to have been worked on a lathe; the patterns are chased. No seams are visible.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
3rd century (Late Roman)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
beads (pierced objects)
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 2 in. (5.08 cm)
Source extras
RelatedObjects
8282
14133
med
gold
creator_ids
6191
collection_ids
ROM
JWL
exhibition_ids
2513
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
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8ebd3b54a5b7b961