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Ancient mosaic glass bead with checkerboard pattern 164MSACheckerboard bead 164MSA
Ancient mosaic glass bead with checkerboard pattern 164MSAAncient glass bead with checkerboard patternAncient mosaic glass bead with checkerboard pattern 164MSAAncient mosaic glass bead with checkerboard pattern
Description

205MSA
Mosaic checkerboard bead
Roman period
1 century AD
Mosaic cane glass

Fused together section of the same complex mosaic cane. Manufactured in several stages, complex mosaic cane consists of square-in-sections miniature yellow, red, white and brown sub-canes, placed around white center.
Intact, excellent condition.
Height 15 mm, diameter 15 mm.

For published archaeological examples see:

- Ve´ronique 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. 158: 203-10
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 49: 75