Face bead

186MSA
Mosaic face bead
Roman period
Egypt 
1 century BC- 1 century AD
Mosaic cane glass

Rod pierced section of complex mosaic cane. Accurately done, round face with features in black. Lower part of face is outlined in green. The whole head is outlined in black with outside yellow border.
Intact, good condition.
Height 5 mm, diameter 13 mm.

SOLD

For similar beads see:

- Metropolitan Museum # 52.11.11 Rogers fund, 1952
- 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: 289
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48: 40