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Object NameBarrel-Shaped Eye Bead

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 500-300 BCE

TechniqueFormes on a rod, trail-decorated, tooled

SizeOverall H: 3.1 cm; Rim Diam: 3 cm

Accession Number64.1.13

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

Past | Present: Expanding the Stories of Glass

Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Place Made

possibly Tunisia, Carthage; possibly Eastern Mediterranean

Physical DescriptionBarrel-Shaped Eye Bead. Opaque white glass matrix with composite eyes of opaque white and translucent deep blue glass along with monochrome prunts of turquoise and opaque yellow, trails of opaque yellow spirally wound with opaque white, turquoise and opaque red-brown, bubbly, pitted, thick milky-white weathering crust with patches of dark enamel weathering crust over entire bead; formed on a rod, trail-decorated, and tooled. A large and long cylindrical white matrix bordered on each end and divided in half by three heavy yellow trails spirally wound with turquoise, red and white, within the two registers formed by these trails and left in high relief are a series of composite eyes, five in each register composed of a layer of white sandwiched between two layers of blue, the upper surface rounded to form a heavy prunt, each of these in turn separated from the next by a small prunt of either turquoise or yellow; horizontally pierced with a large suspension hole 6 mm. diameter.
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