Trailed bead

104TA
Trailed bead
Eastern Mediterranean or Iran
Date: 4-3 century BC

Cubical form. Wound glass over send/clay core. Spirally applied yellow glass trail, dragged to opposite directions to a feather.
Intact, good condition. Surface of the yellow trail is partially missing.
Height 15 mm, 13mm x 14 mm

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. 170: #210-31
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 31: 6, 7.