Face bead

181MSA
Mosaic face bead
Roman period
1-2 century
Mosaic cane glass

White glass matrix with central band of three alternating sections with stripes and three face-sections. Round face with features in dark purple, outlined in black(dark purple) with outside yellow border.
Intact, good condition, several very small chips on white glass.
Height 13 mm, diameter 15 mm.

For similar beads see:

- M. Tempelmann-Maczynska, Die Perlen der römischen Kaiserzeit und der frühen Phase der Völkerwanderungszeit im mitteleuropäischen Barbaricum. Rom. Germ. Forsch. 43, 1985, taf 12 #369
- 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: 288
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48: 31,33
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 124: 205-206