Trailed bead

100TA
Trailed bead
Persia
Date: 4-3 century BC

Wound glass over send/clay core. Spirally applied yellow glass trail, dragged in opposite directions to festoons.
Intact, good condition.
Height 14 mm, Diameter 19 mm

For similar published examples see also:

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 30: 7.
- The golden deer of Eurasia, Metropolitan Museum, 2000, p.177 #124