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Saint-Dizier (52) - Musée Municipal

© Musée de Saint-Dizier, C. Philippot

Necklace (67 beads) - Glass beads (19) covered with fish scales, diameter: 0.3 cm (uncut bead chains), some have a surface gilding very different from the appearance of mother-of-pearl; beads not powdery but dull although embedded in a resin. - Tubular glass beads in Egyptian blue (11); L. 20 mm; dia. 3 mm; well preserved, stable beads. There are some iridescence and matte. - Round amber beads (17), dia. 6 mm. The surfaces are powdery with some loss of material and a whitened surface. - Green glass wedding beads (8); diam. 2 mm: surfaces completely pitted, beads very fragile.

Where to find it

Saint-Dizier (52) - Musée Municipal
17 rue de la Victoire

52100 Saint-Dizier

Commune of discovery

Saint-Dizier

Locality

La Tuilerie

Type of intervention

Excavation

Year of excavation

2002

Chief Scientist

TRUC, Marie-Cécile

Inventory number

2006.8.6

Scope

Daily life ➔ Adornment

Materials

Mineral ➔ lapidary ➔ Amber ➔ Glass

Dimensions

L. 40 cm,

Bibliographie

Marie-Cécile Truc (dir.), Saint-Dizier « La Tuilerie » (Haute-Marne), Trois sépultures d’élite du vie siècle, Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2019, 304 p