PHOENICIAN GLASS PASTE BEAD
4th - 3rd centuries BC
height cm 3

Rod-formed glass bead decorated with three opaque white and orange faces bordered above and below by two rows of blobs.
Brownish weathering-film, some pitting.

Provenance. English private collection; in the collection of O. Burchard, Zurich, until 1983; formerly part of the collection of M. Hess, Basel - Hotel Jura.