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Plate IA Gold-Glass: Rare spindle-shaped gold-glass bead 4.8 cm long of the Hellenistic period; gold foil applied spirally to blue glass, covered with colorless glass (Israel Museum, Jerusalem [IMJ], no. 77.12.841, Dobkin collection; all photos by Z. Radovan). Plate IB Gold-Glass: String of matching gold-glass beads 6-9 mm long, finished individually by hot-working; probably Hellenistic (Egypt?)(IMJ 77.12.455, Dobkin collection). Plate IC Gold-Glass: Two well-preserved pairs of segmented goldand silver-glass beads (both Egypt?)(IMJ 93.29.40, gift of Lennie Wolfe, Jerusalem; IMJ 93.26.54); the lower pair is 1.6 cm long. Plate ID Gold-Glass: Gold-glass and other interspersed glass beads (left to right: from Persia(?), private collection, Jerusalem; IMJ 77.12.455, 77.12.687 and 77.12.672, Dobkin collection). Plate IIA Gold-Glass: Stone, glass and gold-glass beads found at En Gedi on the Dead Sea (Tomb I); late Hellenistic period, ca. early 1st century B.C. (courtesy of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem); the largest bead is 2.5 cm long.
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