Bead
Bead
Place of OriginItaly, possibly Etruria
DateProbably 8th century BCE
DimensionsH: 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm); Max Diam: 7/16 in. (1.1 cm)
MediumRod-formed; applied marvered threads.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Duane Wilder
Object number
1983.18
Not on View
DescriptionCylindrical bead, with one slightly convex and one flat end (possibly cut). Dark blue ground (appearing black) with opaque yellow decoration. An opaque yellow marvered thread is attached at one end and tooled into a festoon pattern. Over the length of the bead, eight pronounced vertical indentations caused by the tooling of the festoons. A longitudinal threadhole at the center, its inner surface coated with a fine brown separating agent.
Published ReferencesGrose, David F., Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-Formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York, Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 35, p. 87, repr. (col.) p. 70.
7th century BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1400 to 1350 BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1412-1350 BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1400-1350 BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1400 to 1350 BCE
2nd through mid-1st century BCE
Late 18th or 19th Century (1400-1225 BCE)
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1400-1350 BCE
Probably 6th Century BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1400-1350 BCE
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