Object card·SAL_3387·1968

Glass bead in figure-of-eight form, Sondage Y

Glass bead in figure-of-eight form, Sondage Y
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3387. "Glass bead in figure-of-eight form, Sondage Y". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Glass bead in the form of a figure of eight, made of paste glass with numerous bubbles and half-bubbles; greenish in transmitted light and bluish in reflected light. Wall thickness 0.06; ø 0.8; H. 2.7; incomplete, the back and upper part are missing. Found with a 5th-century AD coin of Theodosius II (Sal. 3388), square y I, Sondage Y, Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory Po_0248; 2 September 1968.

French, as on the record

num planche : PL_45 num planche : PL_69 forme : Perles en verre ou en pâle de verre type :PERLES carre : y I chantier : Sondage Y — Pâte de verre, bulles et demi-bulles nombreuses ép. paroi : 0,06. — Perle en forme de huit ø : 0,8 dessin : D_3340 diapositives : C_3227 inv objet : Po_0248 negatif : 00435_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0462_p_0160 verre de couleur verdâtre en lumière transmise, bleuâtre en lumière réfléchie. — Trouvée avec une monnaie du Ve s. ap. J.-C. : Théodose II (Sal. 3388) incomplète, la partie arrière et la partie supérieure manquent. H. : 2,7

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