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

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

$ 68.64

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  • Material: Glass
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
  • Condition: Used

    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