Roman Gold Glass Beads Found at Bali Sarcophagus Site

A. Calo/Antiquity

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Gold ornaments found at the Pangkung Paruk site, Bali.

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Nationalgeographic.co.id—Digging archeology on the burial site sarcophagus Pangkung Paruk stone in Bali has revealed the findings of the glass bead collection gold The largest Roman in Southeast Asia. In addition, from the site also found some ornaments gold and two Han Chinese bronze mirrors.

A find of this magnitude is unprecedented in Southeast Asia. According to the researchers archeology across countries involved in the study of this find, the artifacts found in Bali it has similarities to artifacts at Oc Eo in Vietnam, at other sites in the Mekong Delta, and in the Thai-Malay Peninsula.

“The analysis of these new findings and their comparison with others from across the region provides insight into the early to mid-first century AD trans-Asiatic network linking Southeast Asia with South Asia, the Roman world, and China,” the researchers wrote in their published study report. in the journal Antiquity.

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