THE UNKNOWN COLLECTION OF ITEMS FROM THE PRUSSIA MUSEUM IN THE HOLDINGS OF THE STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM. GIFT OF THE DIRECTOR BEZZENBERGER

The paper reports on the attribution and publication of a collection of beads from the Prussia Museum of Koenigsberg in the holdings of the State Historical Museum. The data are examined in the context of contemporary knowledge of the sites and material culture of the Baltic communities in the first centuries of the Common Era. This set of ancient Roman beads handed over by Bezzenberger as a gift to the Moscow Archaeological Society at the 15th Archaeological Congress held in Novgorod in 1911 is made up of the most typical items associated with the cultures of Southeastern Baltics during the Roman period and the Migration period.