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Object NameDiamond Shaped Bead

Made FromGlass, Gold Leaf

Dateprobably 99 BCE-499 CE

TechniqueMolded, Inlaid

SizeOverall H: 0.6 cm, W: 1.6 cm, L: 1.9 cm

Accession Number91.1.6

Credit LineGift of W. Bastiaan Blok

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Place Made

probably Roman Empire

Physical DescriptionDiamond Shaped Bead. Opaque red glass with inlays of opaque white, "black", and colorless glass, and gold leaf; red bead formed around wire, inlaid with preformed "eyes" consisting of gold and colorless element (gold sandwich technique?) cased in opaque white and "black"; apparently finished by grinding. Bead: octahedron (parallelepiped with two rhomboid faces in parallel planes, each with two opposite angles truncated, and with all other faces perpendicular to them); perforation, D: almost 0.2 cm, through longer axis; each rhomboid face inlaid with four circular "eyes," D: 0.3 cm, with gold leaf at center, overlaid with colorless and surrounded by opaque white and "black".
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