39 Beads strung together
39 Beads strung together
Place of OriginEgypt
Date1st Century BCE-4th Century AD
DimensionsL: 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1923.362
Not on View
DescriptionStrand of thirty-nine glass beads of similar size, including teardrop pendants, spherical, barrel-shaped, and biconical forms. The beads feature a variety of mosaic decorations such as stripes, short strip inlays, eye motifs, rosettes, and zigzags
1st Century BCE-4th Century AD
1st Century BCE-4th Century AD
4th century - 7th century CE
possibly 1st Century BCE-4th Century AD
Late Roman - Coptic (4th-6th century CE)
1st Century BCE-4th Century AD
1st century BCE - 1st century CE
possibly late Roman period
1st century BCE - 4th century CE
Probably Late Helladic III, about the 14th-12th century BCE
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