Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC. An Uruk IV sheet gold necklace suiteprising: a gold wire coil; a sheet gold disc with central hexafoil rosette on textured field within a band of radiating triangles on a hatched field, loop to the reverse; pendant formed as two horizontal bars enclosing three large mottled limestone beads with conical stud finials. Cf. Mche, B., Vorderasiatischer Schmuck Von Den Anfangen Bis Zur Zeit Der Achaemeniden (Ca. 10.000-330 V.Chr) Amsterdam, 1992, plate XIV-9. 26.17 grams, 70cm long (27 1/2"). Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Important North West London collection. Apanied by catalogue pages of similar necklaces. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate number no.11124-184609.