bead

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Object Type
Museum number: 1881,0719.4
Description: Barrel-shaped dark blue glass bead overlaid with white festoons.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 900BC-800BC (?)
Production place: Made in: Phoenicia
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Sidon (historic - Phoenicia)
Materials
Technique: trailed; core-formed
Dimensions: Length: 3.20 centimetres; Width: 1.60 centimetres
Curator's comments: See also: R. Higgins, 'Early Greek jewellery', ABSA 64 (1969), p. 145 who compares it to an example found in a rich, mid-ninth century BC tomb from the Athenian Agora.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1881
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1881,0719.4

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