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Mosaic bead

Sales price $450.00
Ancient mosaic glass bead with checkerboard pattern bandRoman mosaic glass bead 171MSA
Ancient mosaic glass bead with checkerboard pattern bandAncient Roman mosaic glass bead with checkerboard pattern
Description

171MSA
Roman checkerboard glass bead
Date: 1-2 century
Mosaic cane glass

Compressed spherical bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is a multicolored checkerboard.
Intact, good condition, surfaced erosion.
Height 14 mm, diameter 16 mm

 For published archaeological examples see:

- Véronique 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. 205: 277-16 (Wrongly attributed as Islamic period bead)

- M. Tempelmann-Maczynska, Die Perlen der römischen Kaiserzeit und der frühen Phase der Völkerwanderungszeit im mitteleuropäischen Barbaricum. Rom. Germ. Forsch. 43, 1985, taf.11: 364a

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48:7,8