bead

Object NameBead

Made FromGlass

Date399 BCE-399 CE

Techniquewound, applied, dragged

SizeOverall L: 2.5 cm, Diam (max): 2.6 cm

Accession Number95.1.35

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

probably Egypt

Physical DescriptionVery dark brown, white, red, and yellow (all opaque) glasses; wound, applied, dragged. Bead, spheroid, with perforation D. 0.7 cm. Bead is brown and decorated with multiple white, brown, and red trails wound around circumference at right angles to perforation, then dragged up and down to make overall pattern of zigzags; surrounding each end of perforation, yellow trail wound in several revolutions, then flattened.
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