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Ancient iridescent monochrome glass bead 343MAAncient monochrome glass bead 343MA
Ancient iridescent monochrome glass bead 343MAAncient iridescent monochrome glass bead 343MAaAncient iridescent monochrome glass bead 343MAb
Description

343MA
Roman monochrome bead
Date: 2 century AD

Toroidal shape, translucent light-green glass.
Intact. Good condition. Iridescent.
Height 14 mm, diameter 22 mm

For similar published examples in museum collections see:
- Véronique 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.192 #240.
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 33: 2.