Ten beads

359MA  
Ten glass beads  
Date: 1-3 century AD
Roman 

Ten red glass tubular beads, imitating natural red coral beads. Intact, good condition, iridescent.

Diameter of the average bead: 7 mm

Height: 10 mm

For similar beads in museum collections see:

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 33: 11

- 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