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Ancient iridescent monochrome glass bead 321MAAncient monochrome glass bead 321MA
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Description

321MA
Roman monochrome bead
Date: 2 century AD

Toroidal shape, translucent light-green glass.
Intact, with not a through crack (surface crack). Good condition. Slightly iridescent.
Height 13 mm, diameter 25 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.