Bead with Inlay Decoration

Object Name: 
Bead with Inlay Decoration

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Object Name: 
Bead with Inlay Decoration
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
54.1.147-3
Dimensions: 
Overall Diam: 1.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
499-1 BCE
Primary Description: 
Translucent yellow-brown glass appearing black, translucent deep blue glass, opaque white, opaque yellow, and turquoise glass; formed on a core or wire, trail decorated, tooled. Eye pendant of flat disc shape, opaque yellow glass flattened on one side with a yellow-brown dot in a large white field backed with yellow-brown, a suspension loop of medium blue glass applied at top; beads horizontally pierced.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Kouchakji, Fahim (b. Syria, 1886-1976), Source
Category: 
Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 81, #137; BIB# 29547