| Original Message: Decorated multiple eyes; Indus Valley and a micro un-Zi (!) bead |
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And of course there are so many etched/decorated stone beads with multiple eyes, though they're not what you really meant, Danny. The first is from the Indus Valley. When I showed it here once before, I suggested the decoration referred to the seven stars of the Pleiades, but they can also be eyes. Certainly in later Islamic iconography eyes and stars frequently overlap. The second is a micro-bead about 6mm across. I called it an un-Zi, tongue in cheek, because it's black on white (Beck's Type 2 category), whereas Zi of course are generally white on black or brown. It has three large eyes one of which has a dot in the centre. It comes from one of the sites in Burma where ancient pumteks have been found, but it's not pumtek material - a very pretty little bead, I think. I have another from the same site, black on white, three eyes again with the eyes as part of a scroll pattern, but it's not here with me and I don't have the photo. W. All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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