Trailed bead

377TM       
Germanic glass bead
Frankish, Thuringian, Merovingian, Ostrogothic, Lombardic
Date: Migration period, last half of 6 century

Spirally applied white and green trails, combed in opposite directions to festoons.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 16 mm, diameter 7 mm

For comparable beads in the museum collections, refer to the following:

- Koch, Ursula. Das Reihengräberfeld bei Schretzheim.  Berlin, 1977. Teil 1-Text ;Teil 2- Katalog und Tafeln, farbtafel 5: 49.15

- I Longobardi, G. C. Menis; E. A. Arslan;Milano, Electa, 1990, IV.86