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Mosaic bead

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Roman mosaic glass bead with laurel wreathRoman mosaic glass bead with laurel wreath
Roman mosaic glass bead with laurel wreathRoman mosaic glass beads with laurel wreath
Description

254MSA
Roman mosaic bead
Date: 1 century BC- 1 century AD
Mosaic glass


Bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is composed of cane sections of interlocking branches and leaves of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), forming a complete circular laurel wreath - a powerful symbol of victory since antiquity.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 8 mm, diameter 10 mm

For similar beads 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. 159: 204-2,16
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48: 16, 17