Checker bead

172MSA
Mosaic checkerboard bead
Roman period
1 century AD
Mosaic cane glass

Fused together section of the same complex mosaic cane. Manufactured in several stages, complex mosaic cane consists of square-in-sections miniature yellow, red and brown sub-canes, placed around yellow center.
Intact, good condition, some glass discoloration. 
Height 15 mm, diameter 17 mm.

For published archaeological examples see:

- Ve´ronique 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. 158: 203-10
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 49: 75