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Ancient glass beads: genuine Hellenistic glass heart bead, 2 century BCE
Ancient glass beads: genuine Hellenistic glass heart bead, 2 century BCE
Ancient glass beads: genuine Hellenistic glass heart bead, 2 century BCE
Ancient glass beads: genuine Hellenistic glass heart bead, 2 century BCE

Ancient glass beads: genuine Hellenistic glass heart bead, 2 century BCE

$ 132

Availability: 100 in stock
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: Used
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
  • Color: Very light green
  • Time Period Manufactured: Pre-1400
  • Material: Glass
  • Handmade: Yes
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    Heart- shaped bead
    Rhodos
    Date: 2-1 century BC
    Monochrome glass
    Heart-shaped flattened form. Transparent pale greenish glass.
    Intact, good condition.
    12 mm, 15 mm x 5 mm
    During the excavation of an ancient house in the city of Rhodes (1966-1967), a large amount of debris from a glass factory was recovered. The main production was evidently devoted to bead-making. Thousands of beads were discovered and the similar beads were among them. See full report in:
    - G. D. Weinberg, “Glass Manufacture in Hellenistic Rhodes,” Archaiologikon Deltion 24 (1969), pp. 143-151, pl. 76
    For similar published examples see also:
    - Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p.226 #303, p. 218: #298-25
    - Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 33: 72.