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Phoenician Glass Beads in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Phoenician Glass Beads in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
Title: Glass eye beads

Medium; Technique: Glass

Culture: Phoenician

Period: Hellenistic

Date: ca. 330–70 B.C.

Dimensions: Average diameter: 1-1.3 cm

Classification: Glass

Credit Line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76

Accession Number: 74.51.316

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Provenance: From Cyprus

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

The beads formed a necklace that probably had an apotropaic as well as decorative purpose.

Text excerpted from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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