Mosaic eyes

357EA
Glass bead with mosaic eyes
Date: 1 century

Rod formed, wound red glass matrix. Three eyes of sliced mosaic cane with cross-section of alternative white, blue and white concentric canes around blue center. Intact, very good condition.
All eyes are intact. Max diameter: 10 mm. Height: 8 mm

For published beads in museum collections 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. 130,  #184-23; p.128, #183-37

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1975, table 15: 70.

- Tombodama Art Museum, 1996, p.43 cat. 41.