Necklace

Unknown Artist

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

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019