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Message	In Arazi's defence, I can see how she made a casual mistake in characterizing the dig bead as "folded" instead of "trailed." The old glass bead included in my pile of Mali gneiss (and/or diorite, granite, whatever) beads seems to show deep penetration by the trailing point. Also interesting is that this bead, judging from the appearance of the broken area, continued to be worn even though broken. She does seem to get the possible Islamic origin of the bead, even if she got the decorative technique wrong. "However, the majority of glass beads have been recovered from Horizon IV. One of them (Q013/a001) has been identified as a folded glass bead, showing white “zig-zag” patterns on a black surface (Fig.7.17). Folded glass beads are usually known from the Middle East, whereby the layers of glass are folded over, creating the patterned lumpy bead (Lucciola 2003). These beads have been correlated with the Islamic world (North Africa and the Near East), which had a prospering bead production between the 7th and 14th century (ibid.). Islamic beads developed with distinctive methods of decoration using trailing, feathering and dragging and the folded technique. They bear the influence of Islamic religious dictates and the subsequent use of pattern and stylisation." But then there's no further reference in the bibliography to the source she cites - "Lucciola 2003" - but a Google AI search indicates: "Giorgio Lucciola: He is cited as a collector of Islamic glass beads, including both millefiori and "folded" types. [a real person, or an AI hallucinated imaginary being?] "Folded" glass beads: This is a technique for producing glass beads that was common in West Africa, particularly for Islamic trade beads dating to the tenth to twelfth centuries." So maybe it was a personal correspondence with "Giorgio Lucciola"? Did he mistakenly identify it as folded? Did he even exist, lol? The other incidental beads from my strands of stone beads include red and black clay, maybe a bone tube, and a mysterious lightweight bead that could be ceramic or limestone or something... Display HTML as text.
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