Corinth Object: MF 2012 16
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 2012 16
Title:   GLASS BEAD
Category Code:   MF
Year:   2012
Object Number:   16
Description:   Glass bead, cylindrical. Cf. MF 6946, MF 7128, MF 7514 (Corinth XII, p. 294, nos. 2481-2483, pl. 122).
Decoration:   White glass dribbled on brownish glass in horizontal rings on one end followed by possibly leaves in the form of hooked white stripes. Described as "wire-drawn beads" in H. C. Beck, Classification and Nomenclature of Beads and Pendants, 1928, pp. 66-67.
Material:   Glass, brown and white
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving half of cylinder in length and in width. Exterior well-preserved.
Dimensions Actual:   Diam. 0.010
Dimensions Preserved:   L. 0.021
Period:   Byzantine
Chronology:   possibly Byzantine (Corinth XII, p. 294)
Area:   Nezi Field
Context:   Nezi Field, context 754
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2012 0721
Basket: Nezi Field, context 754