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Ancient Roman green glass beads 372MAAncient Roman green glass beads 372MA
Ancient Roman green glass beads 372MAAncient Roman green glass beads 372MAa
Description

372MA  
Five glass beads  
Date: 2-3 century AD
Roman 

Five green glass beads with square cross section.
Intact,  iridescent glass.

Cross section: 7 x 7 mm
Height: 10 mm

 

For similar beads in museum collections see:

- 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

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 33: 42.