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Bead
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About this work
An enormous amount of beaded strings and necklaces were excavated from Silla tomb sites. Glass, largely produced in ancient Rome since the late first century CE, also reached the Korean peninsula via the Silk Road, the ancient global trade route. Yet this glass bead is highly likely to be soda glass produced in the Silla territory.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBead (구슬 [珠]), 700s. Korea, Unified Silla period (676-935). Glass; diameter: 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1917.1055
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