Solution:
In the orm.xml file I had mistakenly pointed another entity to use the same sequence (copy/paste syndrom...). So THAT entity was already bound to the sequence, and therefore Glassfish apparently defaulted the second entity to use a table named "sequence", which of course didn't exist. As soon as I fixed the erroneous configuration, the problem was solved.
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