Condition
Partly preserved.
Description
Vertical rectangular panel tapering toward the base; uneven, flat back; straight sides, (top and bottom missing). One hole on the preserved upper part. Molded decoration on front: a series of two volutes appear on the preserved fragment; the entire bead quite probably comprised three volutes (a large hole was running horizontally through the volute at the bottom), each with a truncated pyramidal spike projecting out at left; three pairs of wavy lines in relief run vertically down volutes, with probably six finer lines between spikes on left.
Comments and Comparanda
On Mycenaean beads, see cat. 526.
Provenance
By 1974–1988, Erwin Oppenländer, 1901–1988 (Waiblingen, Germany), by inheritance to his son, Gert Oppenländer, 1988; 1988–2003, Gert Oppenländer (Waiblingen, Germany), sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003
Bibliography
Saldern von, Axel, Birgit Nolte, Peter La Baume, and Thea Elisabeth Haevernick. 1974. Gläser der Antike. Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer. Mainz: von Zabern., pp. 91–92, no. 240; p. 91, plate no. 240.
Wight, Karol. 2011. Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum., pp. 16–17, 22–23, fig. 11.
Nightingale, Georg. 2018. “Glass of the Mycenaeans.” In Aspects of Late Bronze Age Glass in the Mediterranean: Proceedings of JIAA Late Bronze Age Glass Workshop Held at 27th–28th September, 2014, in Kaman, Turkey, ed. Julian Henderson and Kimiyoshi Matsumura, 30–60. Anatolian Archaeological Studies 21. Tokyo: Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology., pp. 32–33, 36, 48, fig. 12, color plate 7.
Exhibitions
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity (Malibu, 2006; 2007)
Römisch-Germanisches Museum (Cologne, June 20 to September 14, 1975)
Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Hamburg, October 4 to November 17, 1974)