Mosaic bead

158MSA
Mosaic glass bead
Date: 1 century BC to 2nd century AD
Alexandria
Mosaic cane glass

Drawn and turned from a premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted from longitudinal blue, white, red and yellow sub-canes on translucent bluish-green base. 
Intact, good condition, stable little cracks in blue glass canes.
Height 14 mm, diameter 16 mm.

For published archaeological examples see:

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 29:46-47
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p.117:#198