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Ancient Roman mosaic glass eye bead with gold foil crossed trailsAncient gold foil bead 185EA
Ancient Roman mosaic glass eye bead with gold foil crossed trailsAncient Roman mosaic glass eye bead with gold foil crossed trails
Description

185EA      SOLD
Mosaic eye bead with gold-foil crosses
Date: 1 century
Egypt


Blue glass matrix with three "x" of gold-foil trails and three mosaic cane eyes in between.
Intact, good condition.
Height 11 mm, diameter 13 mm.

For similar beads 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. 157: 202, p.171: 210-25
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 32: 56