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Mosaic eyes

Sales price $375.00
Ancient Roman bead with mosaic cane eyes 313EA, EgyptAncient Egyptian bead with mosaic cane eyes 313EA
Ancient Roman bead with mosaic cane eyes 313EA, EgyptAncient Roman bead with mosaic cane eyes 313EAa, EgyptAncient Roman bead with mosaic cane eyes 313EAb, Egypt
Description

313EA
Roman glass bead with mosaic eyes
Date: 1 century
Egypt


Green glass matrix with six mosaic cane eyes: red/white/blue/yellow. 
Intact, perfect condition. All eyes are intact. 
Height 15 mm, diameter 16 mm. Popular glass cane in Egyptian mosaic inlays of the same period.

For similar beads in museum collections see:
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1975, table 15: 77-73 for the type.