Museum Quality AMAZING Authentic Ancient Phoenician Glass Face Bead - Pendant - Circa hotsell 300 BC - Very Cool comes with COA !!!

hotsell Rare Authentic Ancient Fine Crafted Phoenician Glass Face Bead - Circa 300 BC - Very Cool comes with COA !!! Museum Quality

Museum Quality Piece !!! Wearable just place it on any chain !! ... So very cool ... amazing ancient glass art !!

Approx 1 1/2 " high

Glazed objects were first made in the Near East in the 5th millennium BC. The glaze was applied as a powder on the surface of the object to induce a self-glazing process, becoming vitrified by the fire or mixed with materials. The first examples of man-made glass, however, seem to date only to the last quarter of the 3rd millennium BC when glass beads were first made in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Glass vessels were rare in eastern Mediterrranean in the Late Bronze Age. Only princes and the very rich could afford them. Some vessels were dedicated to temples and shrines. Others were found in tombs. The process of casting glass in moulds was also invented in the mid-2nd millennium BC. A homogenous group of blue glass pendants in the shape of a nude female (possibly a fertility goddess) is represented in such widely separated sites as Nuzi, Alalakh, Beth-Shean, Megiddo and Lachish. Others have been found in Cyprus, in the Aegean and a very few in Egypt. During the 14-13th centuries BC, a flourishing Mycenaean industry of cast glass jewelry developed.


This piece COMES With my own personal / signed COA !!! This item was personally acquired from an antiquity dealer In Sussex, United Kingdom who sources antiquities from local auction houses and private collections.

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