19 * 10 mm 18 * 10 mm
20 * 9 mm 20 * 11 mm
20 * 18 mm
14 * 6 mm
Mellon bead
12 * 11 mm
Melon shaped Indus Valley crystal bead talisman
Triangular 'Yoni' crystal beads
13 * 10 mm
This is not a Bead.
It is an ancient earring in crystal.
Carved
amethyst beads
 
20 * 9 mm 15 * 10 mm
 
11 * 9 * 4 mm 10 * 7 * 6 mm
10 * 7 mm
Wonderful carved
amethyst crystal beads
Rajput Period 1200 AD
15 * 7 mm
Citrin Beads
Largest piece: 16 * 13 * 10 mm - Smallest piece:
10 * 8 mm
Glazed quartz beads from Afghanistan
These wonderfull carved and blue glazed chalcedony panel beads
showing lapidari work. The glaze is partly worn away.
They are from Balk (Mazar-e-sharif) in Afghanistan. Balk, former called Bactria,
was the main capital in the greek-buddhist state Bactria.
The beads are most probably from 300 BC to 500 AD.
In the book 'A bead timeline', these beads are categorized as Early Islamic
beads from 9th to 11th century Nisharpur. But the collector I purchased
these beads from insisted that he had got these beads from a lot
containing primarily Sassanid artifacts. He was convinced they were from
the sassanian period, but not of sassanian origin. We must not forget that
Afghanistan was dominated by Buddhism up to 1100 AD. The first moslem invaders
were not too eager to convert everyone into Islam. Every none moslem had to pay an extra tax called
'jizya'. If the moslems converted everyone they would loose an important source of income.
So even if these beads should be from 9th to 11th century,
my guess would still be that they are Buddhist.
Buddhist talisman beads
 
15 * 10 * 5 mm
These two pendant beads are figures of feet.
they are not to be confused with the mano-fica,
a symbol throughout the Roman period.
Before the greeks through Alexander the Great taught
the Indians to sculpture God in human form,
Buddha was depicted only by a hand or a foot.
These beads were most probably Buddhist amlulets.
34 * 13 mm
30 * 17 mm
32 * 13 mm
17 * 15 mm
15 mm
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