Trailed bead

414TM       
Germanic glass bead
Frankish, Thuringian, Merovingian, Ostrogothic, Lombardic
Date: Migration period, last half of 6 century

Spirally applied white trail, combed in opposite directions to festoons.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 14 mm, diameter 7 mm

For comparable beads in the museum collections, refer to the following:
- Koch, Ursula. Das Reihengräberfeld bei Schretzheim.  Berlin, 1977. Teil 1-Text ;Teil 2- Katalog und Tafeln, farbtafel 5: 49.8
- Metropolitan Museum # 17.193.222, Morgan collection-1917
- I Longobardi, G. C. Menis; E. A. Arslan;Milano, Electa, 1990, X.66

They have been found in Europe in different cultural context: Frankish, Ostrogoth, Alemani and other Germanic tribes.