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Amber beads
Object Number 40-77-40/10513
Display Title Amber beads
Descriptions
Object Description Eighteen amber beads of various shapes and sizes: 1 disk (3 x 1.2 cm., largest); 2 disks (1.8 x 0.5 cm., smallest), redrilled so that they could also be hung as pendants.
Inventory Description Ground stone amber beads, tubular, spherical and discoidal
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Tubular Bead
Department Archaeological
Culture
  • Late Iron Age
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Europe / Slovenia / <State> / <County> / <City> / Vinica
Intrasite Grave 59
Materials Amber
Dimensions Overall: 3 x 2.9 x 1.2 cm (1 3/16 x 1 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 18
Label on object 40-77-40/10513
Provenance
Provenance Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg (1906)

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Amber beads of various sizes and shapes
40-77-40/11508 Amber beads of various sizes and shapes
Raw Material
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40-77-40/12472 Amber beads
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Amber beads
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Discoidal Bead
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Discoidal Bead
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Raw Material
Discoidal Bead
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Tubular amber beads
40-77-40/10802 Tubular amber beads
Raw Material
Tubular Bead
Vinica
Disk-shaped amber beads of various sizes
40-77-40/10577 Disk-shaped amber beads of various sizes
Discoidal Bead
Raw Material
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Amber beads
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Discoidal Bead
Raw Material
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Disk-shaped amber beads of various sizes
40-77-40/12219 Disk-shaped amber beads of various sizes
Raw Material
Discoidal Bead
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Amber beads
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Raw Material
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Raw Material
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