Ancient Suns

Extremely rare and ancient, banded flat stone agate, from Mesopotamia. Likely to be 4000+ years old. This bead has very clean, precise and dramatic banding. The bead was at one time(in antiquity), capped in gold, but the gold was damaged and I removed it. The condition underneath the caps was perfect. The bead is covered with Dzi-like inclusions, and has superb ancient stringing hole wear.

36mm x 23mm