Large bead

107TA
Roman trailed bead
Eastern Mediterranean
Date: 1-2 century AD


Elliptical matrix, glass wound around sand/clay core. Spirally applied yellow trail, dragged in the same directions, forming festoons.
Intact, very good condition. Small unnoticeable ancient loss in a form of a splinter 5mm x 1 mm at the end.

Height 36 mm, diameter 18 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: 208-11
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 30: 67