National Museum of Asian Art
Cylindrical bead
ca. 3300-2250 BCE
Roughly cylindrical bead form with longitudinal perforation irregularly and conically bored from both sides leaving slight median ridge; broadly mottled brown, golden tan, and greenish gray; surface smooth except for small pits. (Old smoothed break on rim.) One of a set of nine; see F1916.384 and F1916.759 to F1916.766.
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