Face bead

190MSA
Mosaic face bead
Roman period
Egypt 
1 century
Mosaic cane glass

Rod pierced, flatten section of complex mosaic cane. Round face with features in black. Lower part of face is outlined in green glass, upper part is outlined in black, the whole head is in red.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 5 mm, diameter 10 mm.

SOLD

For similar beads see:

- Metropolitan Museum # 52.11.10
- 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: 39
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 124: 208