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Gold foil beads represent another advance of this period. Glass industry at Kopia (Dist. Basti) belongs to this period. From here a block of 120 lbs of unworked glass was recovered. In Deccan also the glass industry made head way during Satavahana period (Fig.6). This is attested by the nature of glass objects i.e. Nevasa (Dist. Ahmadnagar in Maharashtra) has yielded 12 rims of glass containers in emerald green, Persian blue and yellow colour. Ter (Dist. Osmanabad in Maharashtra), has yeilded two flasks, one coloured blue and the other coloured to imitate agate. These have been made by the core process. Devnimori in Gujrat and Amreli in Kathiawar have yielded fragments of glass bottles and loop handles of a bowl. Paithan (Maharashtra) has yielded rim fragments of a glass container in cobalt blue colour. Important articles and publications on various aspects have been mentioned in the bibliography in the end.