Mosaic bead

257MSA
Mosaic glass bead
Date: 2 century BC to 1 century AD
Mosaic glass

Folded from a mosaic strip of twisted and cut sections of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted from alternating dark blue and white, light blue, yellow and red glass sub-canes. 
Intact, good condition.
Height 9 mm, diameter 12 mm.

For published archaeological examples 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. 158 cat.203-18; 205 cat.277-3
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 29: 71-73
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 112 cat.162-163