An Egyptian Electrum-Glass Bead depicting Harpokrates, Early Roman Imperial Period, ca. 50 BCE – 50 CE Medium - Terracotta with The Pacific Arts Symposium)

with The Pacific Arts Symposium)

2001—18th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award

CollectionsAboriginal Art Museum

Objects such as this extraordinary necklace accompanied members of the Chimu aristocracy to their graves and served as an emblem of their status

2008 Artists of Nyirripi & Yuendumu

An Egyptian Electrum-Glass Bead depicting Harpokrates, Early Roman Imperial Period, ca. 50 BCE – 50 CE Medium - Terracotta with The Pacific Arts Symposium)Gold glass beads were a Hellenistic development. They were created by combining drawn tubes of colorless glass with gold or electrum foil. The earliest examples were finished bead by bead. This flat rectangular example of colorless glass, has rounded edges and corners with a hole pierced vertically through the bead. On the upper surface is Harpokrates the child in raised relief, facing front, wearing the sidelock of youth, his right arm raised holding