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Ancient iridescent monochrome glass bead 320MAAncient monochrome glass bead 320MA
Ancient iridescent monochrome glass bead 320MAAncient iridescent monochrome glass bead 320MAaAncient iridescent monochrome glass bead 320MAb
Description

320MA
Roman monochrome bead
Date: 2 century AD

Toroidal shape, translucent light-green glass.
Intact, very good condition. Iridescent.
Height 11 mm, diameter 21 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.