IAA Number: 2010-3154
| Object's Name: Bracelet Period: Mamluk Material: Glass Site: Ni`ana, Kh. Diameter: 6.7 cm Description: Glass bracelet made of dark translucent glass, spirally twisted with
circular cross section. The bracelet is decorated with white and red
trails symmetrically fused. The seam is coarsly finished.
Glass bracelets, composed of smooth or ribbed glass hoops, are known
since the Roman and BYzantine periods. During the Islamic period,
colored threads were added as a decorative element
The bracelet is dated to the Mamluk period. Bibliography: Gorin-Rosen Y. and Katsnelson N. 2007. Local Glass production in the Late Roman- Early Byzantine Periods in light of the glass finds from KHIRBAT El- Ni'ana. ATIQOT 57: 73-154. Spaer, M. 2001. Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and Other small Objects.. Jerusalem, 202, No. 467.
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