Blue glass bead with 'eye' decoration
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Blue glass bead with 'eye' decoration
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Published 2019-10-30T13:15:09+00:00
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Culture: Unknown. Material: Wound glass. Diam: 3cm. Accession No: T 051. Current Location: The Hunt Museum, Limerick.
Truncated biconical bead with a vertical perforation. Made of semi opaque, wound, blue glass with an opaque creamy white horizontal trail, around its centre. The bead has 7 ‘eyes’, four above and 3 below the centre line. These are irregularly placed and comprise an irregular circle of opaque white with 2 inner concentric circles of yellow and white with a blue glass central dot. Beads decorated with ‘eyes’ of layered glass are known from Egypt, Mesopotamia and Europe. More.
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| Date published | 30/10/2019 |
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| Title | Painted Bead |
| Accession | T 051 |
| Medium | Stone |
| Credit | Volunteers at the Hunt Museum |
| Record | http://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/painted-bead/ |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Hunt Museum |
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