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Cast pendant bead

Unknownabout 14th century B.C.

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

Pendant glass bead, part of a double-wire necklace consisting of twelve symmetrical beads. Rectangular relief plaque with motif of an ivy leaf with a double internal row of decorative granules. The upper and lower ends have a raised horizontal ridged section, and are pierced on each side to be threaded onto the necklace. Similar glass beads were intended to imitate gold jewelry.

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