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Object Name: 
Bead
Department
Ancient
Category
Origins of Glassmaking
Place Made: 
Lebanon; Carthage
Date: 
about 500-250 BC
Color
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opaque white glass
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deep blue
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turquoise
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yellow
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red
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brown
Technique
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core-forming
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tooling
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.1 cm; Rim Diam: 3 cm
Accession Number: 
64.1.13
Location: 
On Display
Description
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; core-formed, 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.
Provenance
Smith, Ray Winfield, Source to 1966-01-04
More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Glass Beadmaking (2003) illustrated, p. 7, fig. 1; BIB# 76421
More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Glass Beadmaking (1999) illustrated, p. 7, fig. 1; BIB# 59888
The History of Beads: from 30,000 B.C. to the present (1998) illustrated, p. 19; BIB# 69265
The History of Beads: from 30,000 B.C. to the present (1998) illustrated, p. 19; BIB# 69265

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