Face bead

156MSA
Mosaic face bead
Roman period
Egypt 
1-2 century
Mosaic cane glass

Light turquoise matrix with central band of three alternating sections with stripes and three face-sections. Round face with features in black, outlined in black with outside yellow border.
Intact, good condition.
Height 13 mm, diameter 15 mm.

For similar beads see:

- Metropolitan Museum #13.198.7, Smith Fund, 1913
- 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. 208: 288
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48: 31
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 124: 205-206