Bi-conical glass bead
Semi-opaque dark blue, appearing almost black; additions in opaque yellow, white, and dark blue.
Large, biconical shape with vertical hole, wide at one end with slightly flaring, rounded edge, and narrow at other, rounded end.
Three horizontal yellow trails, comprising one wound around rounded end and one around center of bead, both marvered, and the third left in relief around flaring end; in spaces between trails two sets of four evenly-spaced stratified large blobs.
One blob missing, and cracked gaps around flaring end; dulling and faint creamy iridescent weathering.
Cylindrical; blue, with blue drops.
Large, biconical shape with vertical hole, wide at one end with slightly flaring, rounded edge, and narrow at other, rounded end.
Three horizontal yellow trails, comprising one wound around rounded end and one around center of bead, both marvered, and the third left in relief around flaring end; in spaces between trails two sets of four evenly-spaced stratified large blobs.
One blob missing, and cracked gaps around flaring end; dulling and faint creamy iridescent weathering.
Cylindrical; blue, with blue drops.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bi-conical glass bead
- Period: Classical
- Date: ca. 4th century BCE
- Culture: Possibly Carthaginian
- Medium: Glass; rod-formed and trailed
- Dimensions: 1 7/8 × 1 × 7/8 in. (4.7 × 2.6 × 2.3 cm)
- Classification: Glass
- Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Object Number: 17.190.112
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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Roman
late 1st century BCE
Greek
mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE
Etruscan
early 5th century BCE
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
ca. 4th century BCE
Carthaginian
2nd half of 4th century BCE
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