Glass eye bead
Unknown
4th–3rd century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art
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.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 4th–3rd century BCE
- Medium
- Glass
- Culture
- Phoenician or Carthaginian
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
