Mosaic bead

180MSA
Roman mosaic bead
Date: 1century BC - 1 century AD
Mosaic glass

Fusiform bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Central band composed of blue/white concentric mosaic glass canes divided by white glass strip and terminated by red glass from both ends.  

Intact, very good condition.
Height 34 mm, diameter 16 mm

For similar beads see:
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 29:13
- 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. 159: 204-8