Face bead

146MSA
Mosaic face bead
Roman period
Egypt 
1 century
Mosaic cane glass

Rod pierced section of complex mosaic cane. Accurately done, round face with features in black. Lower part of face is outlined in red. The whole head is outlined in black with outside white border.
Intact, good condition.
Height 5 mm, diameter 11 mm.

For similar beads see:

- Metropolitan Museum # 52.11.10 for the same mosaic cane.
- 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: 289
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48: 35-38
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 124: 208