- Dimension:
- 21X20
- Decoration:
- Eye Beads
- Processing:
- Lamp Beads
- Book Reference:
- fig.4 | p.42
Large eye bead with eyes in high relief, lamp worked atop a shiny, sienna/brown-coloured banded nucleus. They are from the Gao region, found in archaeological sites datable to the eighth–twelfth centuries along with remarkable quantities of nila, white agate beads and intense orange carnelian.
- Biggest Bead Dimension:
- 21X20
- Decoration:
- Eye Beads
- Processing:
- Lamp Beads
- Book Reference:
- fig.92 | p.285
Strands of small ring-shaped beads of various sizes, called nila, with insertions of large eye beads with eyes in high relief, lamp worked atop a shiny, sienna/brown-coloured banded nucleus. They are from the Gao region, found in archaeological sites datable to the eighth–twelfth centuries along with remarkable quantities of nila, white agate beads and intense orange carnelian beads.