Phoenician beads: genuine ancient bead with stratified eyes & sand/clay core

Description

Stratified eye bead
4-3 century BC
Mediterranean region
Sand/clay core, wound blue matrix. Classical 9 (or 5+4) stratified eyes in staggered pattern.
Intact, perfect condition.
Max diameter: 11 mm
Height:  9 mm
For published archaeological examples of the same bead see:
- Kunter K. Glasperlen der vorromischen Eisenzeit IV. Schichtaugenperlen. Marburger Studien, 1995, taf. 5: 18
- 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. 130,  #184-32.
- Tombodama Art Museum, 1996, p.42 cat. 38.
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1975, table 16: 10,11