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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

$ 92.4

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  • Material: Glass
  • Condition: Used
  • Featured Refinements: Ancient Bead
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
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    Description

    Hellenistic trailed bead
    Eastern Mediterranean
    Date: 2-1 century BC
    Cylindrical matrix, wound glass. Spirally applied yellow glass trail, dragged in opposite directions, forming festoons.
    Turquoise
    glass trail applied at each end.
    Intact, good condition.
    Height 22 mm, diameter 11 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