Mosaic bead

160MSA
Roman period mosaic glass bead
Date: 1 century
Mosaic cane glass

Drawn mosaic cane with blue outer layer over greenish glass core, with three "x" of a premanufactured mosaic white-blue-white strips and three mosaic cane eyes in between.
Intact, good condition.
 
Height 12 mm, diameter 15 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