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Trailed bead

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Ancient trailed glass bead 105TMAncient trailed glass bead 105TM
Ancient trailed glass bead 105TMAncient trailed glass bead 105TM
Description

105TA
Early Migration period trailed bead
Hunnish
Date: 4 century AD


Doubled black matrix with applied light green (now mostly discolored) glass trail in a form of a wave.
Intact, good condition.

Height 21 mm, diameter 13 mm

For similar published beads, 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. 214: 296-90.
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 31: 34