Agora Object: J 290
Inventory Number:   J 290
Section Number:   ΒΖ 1956
Excavation Number:   martens:2014:f:68
Title:   Faience Beads
Category:   Jewelry & Gems
Description:   Ninety glass paste beads and bead fragments: twenty-nine are complete, sixty-one are fragmentary, some fragments joining. Very friable.
Mostly uniform rounded shape slightly flattened. Pierced through center.
Glass paste of various colors between white, cream, yellow, green, brown and gray.
Conservation Status:   Finished
Context:   Around the neck of skeleton AA 378 B in Mycenaean Chamber Tomb J 1:11 and during water sieving of fill from around head.
Handling:   Fragile, handle with care.
Stored in plastic box padded with ethafoam and acid free tissue.
Notebook Page:   10613
Dimensions:   Diam. (smallest bead) 0.004 (largest bead) 0.008
Material:   Glass
Chronology:   Mycenaean LH IIIA
Date:   4 August 2014
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/17-1/7,8
Elevation:   50.784-50.808m.
Masl:   50.784-50.808m.
Deposit:   J 1:11
Lot:   Lot ΒΖ 2114
Basket:   martens:2014:b:79
Bibliography:   Hesperia 89 (2020), no. 29d, p. 614, fig. 18.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 89 (2020)
Image: 2016.04.0803
Image: 2016.04.0804
Image: 2019.03.0794
Deposit: J 1:11
Card: J 290