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Object Name2 Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1400-1250 BCE

Place Madepossibly Greece, Crete; possibly Greece, Peloponnese

Techniquemold pressed

Size(a) L: 2.3 cm, W: 1.1 cm; (b) L: 2 cm, W: 1 cm

Accession Number66.1.194

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Not On View

Physical Description(a) Translucent deep blue glass with heavy light brown weathering crust on surface; mold pressed, suspension holes at top and bottom made while casting. Roughly triangular form with multiple ribbed reel at top and narrow reel at bottom, depressed central area between is decorated with a raised Mycenaean figure-eight shield pinched in the center and outlined with relief dots. (b) Same as above with lower reel and suspension hole missing.
Provenance

Source Sergio Sangiorgi (Italian) - 1966

Former Collection Giorgio Sangiorgi (Italian, 1886-1965)