Elamite Gold and Carnelian Bead Necklace. 2nd-early 1st millennium BC and later. A necklace composed of gold, carnelian and dark green jasper or haematite beads, including annular, biconvex, spherical and tubular beads, with pendants including three sheet-gold triangular prism-shaped pendants with chevron decoration, multiple piercings to two sides, and four rectangular-section dark green jasper or haematite plaques, also with multiple piercings to two sides; restrung, with a later hook-and-eye clasp.See Maxwell-Hyslop, K.R., Western Asiatic Jewellery, c.3000-612 BC, London, 1971, p.8-10, for bead types typical of this period, examples of which can be seen in the necklace offered here.65 grams, 40cm (1 1/2"). From a private family collection formed in London from the mid 1980s-early 1990s; accompanied by an independent specialist report and valuation by graduate gemmologist and jewellery expert Anna Rogers, GIA GG, BA, Gem-A, ref. no. 174197/24/03/2021; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10663-174197.