"Islamic" period
Re: what do you think about this bead? -- kika Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Will Mail author
06/16/2015, 08:15:41

Hi Kika,

I think it's a West Asian Islamic period bead - which fits with it having been excavated in Djenne. The pendant structure is slightly unusual, the trailed decoration is not. It's definitely not a core-formed Phoenician head pendant. I'll attach another from the same time period with a similar resemblance to a face - which quite a lot of eye beads show. Perhaps the resemblance was intentional, but I rather doubt it.

All the best,

Will

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