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Ancient Roman necklace with iridescent glass tubular beads 228NA
Ancient Roman necklace with iridescent glass tubular beads 228NAAncient Roman iridescent glass tubular beads 228NA
Description

228NA   SOLD
Glass necklace 
Date: 1-2 century AD
Roman 

Composed of 49 glass tubular beads.
Intact, good condition, all intensively iridescent.

Diameter of the average bead: 7 mm
Height: 13 mm

Necklace is 21" ( 53.3 cm) long

For similar beads see:

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 33: 14

- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 222 #300-10