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Uncertain color, with opaque yellow and white, and translucent blue.
Cylindrical, with rounded edge at both ends; large hole running vertically through bead.
Five large stratified eyes around center, surrounded by smaller irregular knobs.
Weathered chips in ends, and some knobs damaged; enamel-like creamy weathering and iridescence.
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Title: Glass eye bead
Period: Late Classical or Early Hellenistic
Date: 4th–3rd century BCE
Culture: Phoenician or Carthaginian
Medium: Glass; rod-formed and applied
Dimensions: Height: 13/16 x 1 in. (2.1 x 2.6 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.714
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