String of 21 Eye Beads
Unknown
6th–3rd century BC · Glass · Egyptian Art
Mosaic glass beads had long been popular in Egypt. The period of large intercontinental empires beginning about 500 BC initiated a period of widespread trade of these small items. These are all modern stringings; most ancient stringing patterns are lost as the string decays.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 6th–3rd century BC
- Medium
- Glass
- Department
- Egyptian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910
