Eye bead

400EA
Bead with mosaic eyes
3-1 century BC
Mediterranean region & Persia

Rod formed, wound blue glass matrix. Two eyes of sliced mosaic cane with cross-section of alternative white, blue and white concentric canes around blue center and one eye of sliced mosaic cane with cross-section of alternative yellow, blue and white concentric canes around blue center. Intact, very good condition. All eyes are intact. Max diameter: 9 mm, Height: 8 mm

For published beads in museum collections see:

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1975, table 16: 16 table 15: 44.

- 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. 171,  #210-17.

- Tombodama Art Museum, 1996, p.43 cat. 41 different color matrix.