Semi-precious pearl necklace - Tinhinan jewelry

Semi-precious pearl necklace - Tinhinan jewelry

Year
2017
Face Value
10.00
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
-
Themes
Craftsmanship
The tomb of Tinhinan discovered in 1925 by a Franco-American archaeological expedition in Abalessa in the wilaya of Tamanrasset. Consisting of a well-preserved skeleton, coins, gold and silver jewelry, as well as funerary furniture. These sumptuous objects are preserved and exhibited at the Bardo National Public Museum in Algiers.

Semi-precious pearl necklace:

Beads mounted in a necklace, made up of various elements: balls of rounded conical and cylindrical shapes; numbering fifty-nine (59), essentially composed of three varieties of chalcedony: uniformly colored chalcedony, agate characterized by bands or circular areas of varied colors and orange-red and brown-red carnelian. Also other beads are made from enamels and glass tabs.