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Migration period- Germanic glass bead 266 TMGermanic glass bead 266 TM
Migration period- Germanic glass bead 266 TMMetropolitan Museum 17.193.222, Morgan collection-1917, FrankishMigration period- Germanic glass bead 266TM
Description

266TM       
Germanic glass bead
Frankish, Thuringian, Merovingian, Ostrogothic, Lombardic
Date: Migration period, last half of 6 century



Spirally applied white trail, combed in opposite directions to festoons.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 22 mm, diameter 9 mm

For published archaeological examples see:
- Koch, Ursula. Das Reihengräberfeld bei Schretzheim.  Berlin, 1977. Teil 1-Text ;Teil 2- Katalog und Tafeln, farbtafel 5: 49.8
- Metropolitan Museum # 17.193.222, Morgan collection-1917
- I Longobardi, G. C. Menis; E. A. Arslan;Milano, Electa, 1990, X.66