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LOT 0779
Roman and Other Glass and Stone Bead Group
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
1/8 - 1/2 in. (58.5 grams total, 1-14 mm).
Comprising a quantity of mixed beads, mainly oblate and cylindrical in form, including glass, modelled, faience and stone etc. [No Reserve]
Provenance
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Literature
Cf. Croom, A.T., Amber beads in Roman Britain, 2018, fig.1 nos.11,13,15.
Footnotes
The use of amber beads as amulets in the Roman world is well attested, even in Britain (series of bracelets have been found in late Roman graves at Cirencester and Colchester). The amber beads were associated with pierced coins, pierced dog’s teeth and a lunate pendant. Pliny said that amber was beneficial to infants ‘when attached to the body in the form of an amulet'.
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