Blue glass bead with 'eye' decoration

Culture: Unknown. Material: Wound glass. Diam: 3cm. Accession No: T 051. Current Location: [The Hunt Museum](https://www.huntmuseum.com/), [Limerick](https://www.geonames.org/7778675/limerick-city.html). Truncated biconical [bead](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300234006) with a vertical perforation. Made of semi opaque, wound, blue glass with an opaque creamy white horizontal trail, around its centre. The bead has 7 ‘eyes’, four above and 3 below the centre line. These are irregularly placed and comprise an irregular circle of opaque white with 2 inner concentric circles of yellow and white with a blue glass central dot. Beads decorated with ‘eyes’ of layered glass are known from [Egypt](https://www.geonames.org/countries/EG/egypt.html), [Mesopotamia](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300019828) and [Europe](https://www.geonames.org/6255148/europe.html). [More](https://tinyurl.com/3wd5k8c9).