ANCIENT GLASS BEADS AND GAMING PIECES
ANCIENT GLASS BEADS AND GAMING PIECES

CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.-7TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER

Details
ANCIENT GLASS BEADS AND GAMING PIECES
circa 7th century b.c.-7th century a.d. and later
Including twenty disk-shaped gaming pieces of cobalt blue with opaque yellow or white spiral trailing; three blue gaming pieces with opaque yellow blobs; an Etruscan core-formed fibula bow; four Etruscan core-formed beads with some similar fragments; a spherical and a cylindrical mosaic bead; a mosaic cylindrical tube rounded on one end; a cast and cut amber glass bottle; six fragmentary spirally wound applicators; an Egyptian or egyptianizing faience necklace of globular beads with two plaques and a pendant, each plaque with a bull on one side, wadjet eyes on the other, the pendant with a facing head surmounted by a uraeus; three later large Italian mosaic beads of blue, white and yellow (44)
Literature
Sangiorgi, Catalogi di Collezioni di Vetri Antchi, no. 39, pl. VII.

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