Mosaic bead

174MSA
Roman mosaic bead
Egypt
Date: 1-2 century
Mosaic glass

Spherical bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Blue glass with central band, composed of two mirrored  rows of "running waves" on yellow background separated by red glass equatorial line.
Intact, good condition.
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. 207: 284
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p.123: 203
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48:23