PHOENICIAN GLASS PASTE BEAD
4th - 3rd centuries BC
height cm 3,2

Rod-formed glass bead decorated with eyes each with translucent dark blue pupils and opaque white eyeballs with stripes in translucent brown round the inside.
Crackle, minor restorations and 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.