Face bead

176MSA
Mosaic face bead
Roman period
1 century
Mosaic cane glass

Red matrix with central band of four face-sections. White face with features in black, outlined in black and blue with outside white border.
Intact, glass discoloration.
Height 15 mm, diameter 16 mm.

For similar beads see:

- 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: 288-290
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48: 28
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 124: 206