bead
- Museum number
- 2003,0214.5
- Description
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Spherical mosaic glass bead. Blue-green in middle with 4 white faces with black and red details, and with a blue or multicoloured surround. Red bands at ends.
- Production date
- 100BC-100
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Most of the Ridgeway collection was given to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, where the Smyrna gems are recorded as having been acquired via AO Van Lennep. Henig, M. (1994), Classical Gems: Ancient and Modern Intaglios and Cameos in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, p. 174
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- Attached label saying 'Smyrna'.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2003,0214.5