Glass bracelet with banded decoration
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On a base loop of “black” (dark purple) glass with a symmetrically pointed cross section with flattened top and bottom, the craftsman wrapped six bands of green glass, bordered with a red thread. Deep grooves wrapping irregularly all around the external face of the armlet were cut into the black glass before the green and red banding was applied. A white weathering crust adheres to most of the inside, and some of the outside. Syria-Palestine, probably thirteenth to sixteenth century AD. “this kind of flattened, obliquely pointed cross section is well known in the Levant, but not in Egypt” (Spaer 2001:203). Bibliography (for this item)Spaer, Maud2001 Ancient glass in the Israel Museum: beads and other small objects. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. (203) |
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