bead

Object NameBeads

Made FromGlass, Gold

Date199 BCE-199 CE

Techniquewound, molded

SizeBlue Wound Beads L (max): 1 cm; Segement Gold Glass Beads L: 1 cm

Accession Number74.1.2

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Place Made

Iran, possibly Amlash

Physical DescriptionDeep blue and purplish-blue glass, colorless glass, pitted and highly iridescent; wound blue beads and segmented gold glass beads. Blue beads (35) differ markedly in color, size and condition, several may have been ribbed, one is a standard truncated convex bicone. Gold glass beads formed of inner rod covered with gold foil over which colorless glass was coiled or molded. Twenty beads have two segments, twelve have three segments, four have four segments, probably formed in a mold.
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probably 200-699

1400-1360 BCE

99 BCE-99 CE

about 1-50