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Description: | Melon bead made from faience. A melon bead is a globular bead, usually quite large, with grooves around the outside running parallel to the perforation. Faience is a little like glass - it is a mix of soda, lime and quartz - and it has a surface glaze. Here the core is a matt opaque dirty white colour, and there are fragments of a bright blue, almost turquoise glaze surviving in eight of the 21 grooves. The bead is slightly irregular; its dimensions are 22-24 mm in diameter, 18 mm long parallel to the perforation, perforation 8-9 mm in diameter. Faience is a very ancient invention and was used in Egypt as well as in Roman beads. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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