Composite Eye Bead

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Object Name: 
Composite Eye Bead
Place Made: 
possibly Carthage
possibly Eastern Mediterranean
Accession Number: 
54.1.140-5
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 eye bead, yellow-brown glass appearing black with three sets of double eyes arranged in figure-eight pattern, a single eye taking up the space on one side, the eyes consist of a yellow-brown dot in an alternating white and yellow-brown ground.

More Info

Department: 
Ancient
Provenance: 
Kouchakji, Fahim (b. Syria, 1886-1976), Source
Category: 
Beads
Color: 
Translucent deep blue, green
Technique: 
core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled
core-forming

Publications (1)

Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1979) illustrated, p. 116, #240; BIB# 29547

Objects in Set (6)

6 Composite Eye Beads
Date:600-250 BCE
Accession Number:54.1.140
Composite Eye Bead
Date:600-250 BCE
Accession Number:54.1.140-1
 
Composite Eye Bead
Date:600-250 BCE
Accession Number:54.1.140-2
Composite Eye Bead
Date:600-250 BCE
Accession Number:54.1.140-3
 
Paired Eye Bead
Date:600-250 BCE
Accession Number:54.1.140-4
Composite Eye Bead
Date:600-250 BCE
Accession Number:54.1.140-6