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CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
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EIGHT ROMAN GLASS BEADS
circa 1st-2nd century a.d. or earlier
All of black glass, with two large horizontal perforations, six cast with grimacing faces, the open mouths suggesting theater masks, and three cast with faces fringed with striated hair, perhaps depicting Medusa; together with a similarly cast double-perforated bead with a facing head of Medusa with wings in her snakey hair; and eight mellon- or nut-shaped beads, cast of cobalt blue glass with an opaque white backing, each with two thin perforations
1.1/8 in. (2.8 cm) long for the largest (17)
circa 1st-2nd century a.d. or earlier
All of black glass, with two large horizontal perforations, six cast with grimacing faces, the open mouths suggesting theater masks, and three cast with faces fringed with striated hair, perhaps depicting Medusa; together with a similarly cast double-perforated bead with a facing head of Medusa with wings in her snakey hair; and eight mellon- or nut-shaped beads, cast of cobalt blue glass with an opaque white backing, each with two thin perforations
1.1/8 in. (2.8 cm) long for the largest (17)