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Roman bead and reel on a fragment of the entablature from the courtyard colonnades of the Sanctuary of Jupiter Heliopolitanus, Baalbek, Lebanon, 2nd century AD, limestone, Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Bead and reel is an architectural motif, usually found in sculptures, moldings and numismatics. It consists in a thin line where beadlike elements ...
Roman Aureus (36 BC AD Z.) with incompletely embossed pearl circle Castilian Maravedi (c 1475) with bead and reel. A pearl circle (also pearl rim or pearl ring; French grènetis, German Perlkreis, Perlrand, Perlreif) is a circular arrangement of fine, raised points or "pearls" on the edge of coins; [1] it also sometimes appears in round or oval frames.
Bead and reel contour. Greek Legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΘΕΟΦΙΛΟΥ "Of Fair/Just King Theophilos". Rev: Herakles. Indian-standard coin of Theophilus, with bust of Herakles, and his club on reverse.
The production of beads from imported glass shards, cullet (scraps) and undesired glass beads has a lively presence in the history of Sub-Saharan Africa. Imported glass was either formed by melting such imported glass, potentially adding desired colorants, and then shaping the melt into a bead form; or, by grinding down the imported glass to ...
By the time it passed to him its upper moulding, much of the bead-and-reel decoration of its lower moulding, and (most likely from an act of vandalism of unknown date, perhaps related to iconoclasm) the heads of the figures moving in two processions around the drum had all already been lost. One of Dodwell's images of the Guilford Puteal
Taking its name from the island of Fair Isle — part of the Shetland archipelago about 100 miles off the northeastern coast of Scotland — the knitting technique first began in fisherman’s ...
The Society of Bead Researchers is a scholarly association for those studying beads and beadmaking in the context of history, ethnology and archaeology worldwide. The society was founded in 1981 [ 1 ] by Peter Francis, Jr. , director of the Center for Bead Research in Lake Placid, New York, [ 2 ] Elizabeth J. Harris and Jamey D. Allen.
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