Glass eye bead
Unknown
4th–3rd century BCE · Glass · Greek and Roman Art
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.
- 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
