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LOT 0437
Phoenician Blue Glass Bead Group
6TH-3RD CENTURY B.C. OR LATER
3/8 - 1 in. (65 grams total, 10-25 mm).
Including drum-shaped types with marvered eye-motifs. [21, No Reserve]
Provenance
UK gallery, early 2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
Cf. Costa, M., Barrulas, P., Arruda, A.M., Dias, L., Barbosa, R., Vandenabeele, P., Mirao, J., ‘An insight into the provenance of the Phoenician-Punic glass beads of the necropolis of Vinha das Calicas (Beja, Portugal)’ in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, (2021) 13, 149, pp.1-17, fig.2, nos.44, 75, for nearly identical beads.
Footnotes
The category belongs to the cylindrical turquoise eye beads with dark blue and white decorations. Pre-Roman glass beads of this type, generally dated to the Iron Age (end of the ninth century B.C. to 218 B.C.), have been found in significant amounts in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, especially in Phoenician and Punic burial contexts.
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