Mosaic bead

255MSA
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 glass sub-canes on translucent amber -color base. 
Intact, good condition.
Height 14 mm, diameter 9 mm.

For published archaeological examples see:
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 29: 71-73