Bead
MS1141
Location: On Display in the Etruscan Italy Gallery
From: Italy | Etruria | Narce
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
| Object Number | MS1141 |
| Current Location | Etruscan Italy Gallery - On Display |
| Culture | Faliscan | Etruscan |
| Provenience | Italy | Etruria | Narce |
| Locus | Tomb 18B |
| Date Made | 7th c. BCE |
| Section | Mediterranean |
| Materials | Glass |
| Description | "Eye Beads" from a necklace. Of these some twenty are in fragments. Of the complete beads, four, now forming the center of the string, are of translucent glass, two of amber, the rest of opaque blue glass ornamented for the most part with three white circles. Of the fragmentary beads, four are of translucent glass, about six are of amber, the rest of blue glass with white circles. |
| Length | 35.56 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Fausto Benedetti, 1896 |
| Other Number | 846 - Stevenson Etruscan Series Number |
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