Composite Eye Bead

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Object Name: 
Composite Eye Bead
Accession Number: 
54.1.140-3
Dimensions: 
Overall D: 1.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
600-250 BCE
Primary Description: 
Translucent deep blue, translucent green, translucent greenish-grey, translucent blue-green, turquoise, opaque white, and opaque yellow glass, various lightly weathered surfaces; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. Short barrel-shaped bead of greenish-grey matrix with composite eyes arranged in two registers at either end, four on one, three on the other, the central dot in blue on a white ground alternating with bands of yellow-brown and white, all have been marvered into the surface and the ends flattened.
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. 85, #157; BIB# 29547