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A FINE BACTRIAN LAPIS LAZULI BEAD NECKLACE,

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A FINE BACTRIAN LAPIS LAZULI BEAD NECKLACE,
A FINE BACTRIAN LAPIS LAZULI BEAD NECKLACE, c.3rd-2nd Mill. BC, temporarily strung and interspersed with modern 22 carat gold beads, Baluchistan, 50cm Provenance: From an Australian collection Reference: c.f.: Bahn 1992: ..."The Bactrian Bronze Age...a culture, initially identified from...graves in northwestern Afghanistan ...that produced a range of materials (pottery, seals and other metal work, ornamented stone vessels, stone statuettes and other materials) which are strongly represented in Baluchistan and the margins of the Indus (Sibri), and also appear across the Iranian plateau as far west as Susa. V.I. Sarianidi's work on the Dashly sites and that of Askarov at Sapalli-Depe provide the archaeological context of this important culture area" Bahn P. (ed) 1992, Collins Dictionary of Archaeology, HarperCollins, Glasgow, p.44).