Large bead

109TA
Roman trailed bead
Eastern Mediterranean
Date: 1-2 century AD


Elliptical matrix, glass wound around sand/clay core. Spirally applied white trail, dragged in the same directions, forming festoons.
Intact, very good condition.

Height 39 mm, diameter 20 mm

For similar published examples see:
-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. 166: 208-13
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 30: 63