Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c21.s1.8
Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c21.s1.8
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More than one hundred glass beads have been recovered at Ahicchatra: 28 green glass beads (containing copper and/or iron), 12 blue-green beads, resembling the Persian blue shade, blue glass (containing cobalt or copper), blue millifiori glass small barrel lenticular bead, short-barrel annular beads of orange glass (AD 100) containing cuprous oxide, red glass with white core from Ladakh, gold-foil glass beads in which a layer of gold foil is sandwiched between layers of transparent glass (similar specimens from Kauśāmbī are dated between 300 BC and second century AD), dark red opaque glass beads containing copper, bright red, black and black and white glass-beads etc.