521. Spacer-Bead

Condition

Intact. Silvery weathering and incrustation.

Description

Rectangular spacer-bead in the shape of an elongated plaque with raised and ribbed ends pierced by a transverse thread hole. The underside is glossy and concave; the upper side is decorated with three raised, figure-eight-shaped pelte shields, each surrounded by dots.

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

von Saldern et al. 1974, pp. 91–92, no. 240; p. 91, plate no. 240.

Wight 2011, pp. 16–17, 22–23, fig. 11.

Exhibitions

Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg and Cologne, 1974–1975)