Trailed bead

113TA
Hellenistic trailed bead
Eastern Mediterranean
Date: 2-1 century BC

Cylindrical matrix, wound glass. Spirally applied turquoise glass trail, dragged in opposite directions, forming festoons. Yellow glass trail applied at each end.
Intact, good condition. Ancient abrasion at one end.
Height 21 mm, diameter 10 mm

For similar published examples see:
- 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. 81, #142
- Marie-Dominique Nenna, Exploration archeologique de Delos, 32: Les verres, Paris, Athenes, EFA, De Boccard, 1999, pl.54: E183-E188
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 31: 14