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Ancient Roman mosaic glass bead, 2 century

Roman mosaic glass bead 162MSA

Ancient Roman bead, red mosaic glass, 2 century

Description

162MSA
Roman mosaic bead
Date: 2 century
Mosaic glass

Bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Mosaic strip is composed of three sections (seams are clearly visible) of a complex mosaic cane with multiple red/yellow canes with green centers.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 12 mm, diameter 13 mm

For similar beads see:
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1975, table 14: 106, 107
-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 for similar type mosaic cane