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 |