Crumb bead

298EA
Roman Crumb bead
1-4 century

Wound "black" cylindrical matrix. Crumbs in yellow, red-brown and green, all flat.
Surface chipped as several crumbs missing, otherwise intact.  
Max diameter: 11 mm
Height: 23 mm

For similar published beads in museum's collection 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. 90,  #155-13.
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1975, table 16: 16 table 12 for the type.