Mosaic bead

171MSA
Roman checkerboard glass bead
Date: 1-2 century
Mosaic cane glass

Compressed spherical bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is a multicolored checkerboard.
Intact, good condition, surfaced erosion.
Height 14 mm, diameter 16 mm

 For published archaeological examples see:

- Véronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 205: 277-16 (Wrongly attributed as Islamic period bead)

- M. Tempelmann-Maczynska, Die Perlen der römischen Kaiserzeit und der frühen Phase der Völkerwanderungszeit im mitteleuropäischen Barbaricum. Rom. Germ. Forsch. 43, 1985, taf.11: 364a

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48:7,8