Necklace

Beads

Necklace of 336 beads of 11 types. Type 1 (1 bead): cigar shaped, for sided tapering at both ends. Type 2 (15 beads): beach-ball type; six sided hollow thin walled ball, flatter at ends. Type 3 (1 bead): square; thick walled, pierced by hole for strand. Type 4 (25 beads): leaf shaped; edges slightly curled, upper end, curled into hook for strand. Type 5 (4 beads): rectangular bar pierced by four parallel holes, one used for strand. Type 6 (82 beads): wedding band; U shaped in section. Type 7 (123 beads): wedding band shaped; smaller and thinner than type 6. Type 8 (1 bead): wedding band shaped; sized between type 6 and type 7. Type 9 (10 beads): wedding band shaped; similar in size to type 7; with transverse incisions. Type 10 (11 beads): wedding band shaped; unlike types 6-9, sides are rounded; diagonal incisions. Type 11 (63 beads): tiny spherical beads. Similar to Early Bronze Age jewelry of Troy, Lemnos (Poliochni), and Ur.