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Serial Number: RB 0508
Status: Display
Description:
This powder amber stone Arabic prayer beads is composed of 47 tube shaped. The bead size measures 11 x 6 mm, 38 cm in length, and weighs 15.2 grams. The Shaheed is made of amber while the karkousha is tassel.
Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects. Amber is used in jewelry. It has also been used as a healing agent in folk medicine.
There are five classes of amber, defined on the basis of their chemical constituents. Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions. Amber occurring in coal seams is also called resinite, and the term ambrite is applied to that found specifically within New Zealand coal seams.
