Glass spacer bead
Unknown Artist
Uncertain color, appearing opaque black.
Elongated oval, plano-convex shape; two large holes side by side.
On upper face, five tooled grooves forming four ribs across surface.
Intact; slight weathering and encrustation within holes.
Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
c. 4th century A.D.
Glass; rod-formed and tooled
1.2 x 1.3 x 2.4 cm
17.194.462
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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