Both men and women wore silver and gold necklaces in Seljuq times, but this resembles a woman’s choker. This necklace consists of twenty-three hollow beads made of gold sheet, each with twelve facets and a central hole in each side surrounded by twisted gold wire.
Credit: Purchase, Hess Foundation Gift, 1972
11th-12th century
Gold sheet; granulation, twisted wire
40.0in
1972.188.3
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