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Gold foil bead
Sales price $450.00
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