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Dark blue, with opaque yellow and white.
Cylindrical, with rounded edge at both ends; large hole running vertically through bead.
Five large white eyes around center, flanked above and below by two rows of smaller knobs in yellow and white.
Weathered chips in ends, tops of eyes missing, and some knobs damaged; dulling, pitting, and faint weathering.
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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: 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)
Diameter: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.194.715
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