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Gold foil bead

Sales price $450.00
Ancient Roman mosaic glass bead with gold foilAncient mosaic glass bead with gold foil 157MSA
Ancient Roman mosaic glass bead with gold foilAncient Roman mosaic glass bead with gold foilAncient Roman mosaic glass bead with gold foil
Description

157MSA
Gold foil 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 and amber with gold foil glass sub-canes on translucent amber -color base. 
Intact, excellent condition.
Height 12 mm, diameter 16 mm.

For published archaeological examples see:
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 29: 72-73
-Metropolitan museum acc. number 15.130.11 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/249047