Ancient glass beads: Hellenistic trailed bead, 2-1 century BCE, Mediterranean

Description

Hellenistic trailed bead
Eastern Mediterranean
Date: 2-1 century BC
Cylindrical matrix, wound glass. Spirally applied
turquoise
glass trail, dragged in opposite directions, forming festoons.
Yellow
glass trail applied at each end.
Intact, good condition.
Height 20 mm, diameter 10 mm
For similar published examples in Museum collections see:
- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 81, #142
- Marie-Dominique Nenna, Exploration archeologique de Delos, 32: Les verres, Paris, Athenes, EFA, De Boccard, 1999, pl.54: E183-E188
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 31: 14