Mosaic bead

259MSA
Checkerboard glass bead
Date:  1 century AD
Mosaic cane glass

Flat, rod-pierced mosaic cane section. Manufactured in several stages, complex mosaic cane consists of multi- squares yellow and red sub-canes. 

Intact.
Height 4 mm, cross-section 9 x 9 mm.

For published archaeological examples see:
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 49: 69
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p.124  cat. 213