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Posted by: kika

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06/15/2015, 10:31:09

I bought this bead many years ago in Africa, it was with Djenne excavate beads but I never have seen this kind of bead. It seems to the phenician bead with a face. Is somebody to help me? What do you think about this bead?
I send two first pics face and back
and two another pics on the second message.

kika

I forgot to note the size: 2,7cm height, 1,6cm wide
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06/16/2015, 06:29:52

kika

"Islamic" period
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Posted by: Will

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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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Posted by: kika

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06/16/2015, 12:47:59

Thanks Will: your bead is really beautiful. The mine is very worn. But I agree with you, I think it's comes from Middle West like the other beads of Djenne. However, during the islamic period, the design are geometric and no figurative. Perhaps is this bead pre-islamic because it's clearly a face. what do you think?

kika

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