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Necklace
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About this work
An enormous amount of beaded strings and necklaces were excavated from Silla tomb sites. Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late first century CE, also reached the Korean peninsula through the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. Yet soda glass started to be produced in the Silla territory as early as the second century CE. Comprising glass beads, comma-shaped jades, and silver bands, this is an excellent example of a necklace.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineNecklace (목걸이 [頸飾]), 700s. Korea, Unified Silla period (676-935). Jade, amethyst, gold, rock crystal. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1945.380
