Check the listing for details. Ancient glass beads: TWO genuine ancient Hellenistic monochrome glass beads. Color: Multi-Color, Condition: Used. Listed at 48.00 USD. Two Hellenistic glass beads 3-1 century BCE Eastern Mediterranean Rod formed wound green glass and blue glass beads. Matrix with opposed indentations along the axis. Intact, good condition. Up to height 8 mm, diameter 12 mm During the excavation of an ancient house in the city of Rhodes (1966-1967), a large amount of debris from a glass factory was recovered. The main production was evidently devoted to bead-making. Thousands of beads were discovered and the similar beads were among them. See full report in: - G. D. Weinberg, “Glass Manufacture in Hellenistic Rhodes,” Archaiologikon Deltion 24 (1969), pp. 143-151, pl. 76.For similar published examples see also: - Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna. Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 120: #179-22,25,29; p.128: #183-32; p.132:#185-15. - Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 33: 59.