Mosaic bead

349MSA
Mosaic glass bead
Date: 1 century BC to 2nd century AD
Mosaic cane glass

Drawn and turned from a premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted from longitudinal green, white, blue, yellow and amber glass sub-canes on translucent amber -color base. 
Intact, good condition.
Height 13 mm, diameter 9 mm.

For published examples of this bead 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. 90 cat.155-6
- Tombodama Art Museum, 1996, Japan, p.71 cat. 83b. 
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 29: 71-73