Bead ID
Re: Jamey ! Bead ID Please .... -- thengan Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Beadman Mail author
06/01/2006, 06:25:50

HI TH,

I believe these are all wound, trailed-&-combed beads from the Islamic Period.

I also think they are the prototypes for later (19th C.) Venetian beads, that we see from Africa and elsewhere. The Venetian beads often have translucent red lines inside the white, and also teal lines-in-white. (This indicates a likely date after ca. 1825.) The more colorful prototypes may have opaque brick-red, and are thus different.

Beads with trailed-&-combed lines can be of almost remote antiquity (in glass terms). They were made in the first centuries of glassworking. Some, popularly called "Marlik" beads—after a site in Iran where they have been recovered, from the 10 C. BCE—find their way into the antiquites trade occasionally. These are usually greenish or white (depending on their condition), and may be mistaken for "faience" beads. (See Dubin # 308; and Lankton p. 46, # 412.) Of course, the Egyptians also made many combed beads too, and some appear with and are from the Phoenician Period (ca. 500 BCE).

But I am reasonably sure your beads are from the Islamic Period, of ca. 1,000 years ago.

Jamey



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