Trailed bead

98TA
Roman trailed bead
Eastern Mediterranean
Date: 1-2 century AD


Elliptical matrix, glass wound around sand/clay core. Spirally applied yellow and red glass trails, dragged in the same directions, forming festoons.
Intact, good condition. Red glass trails mostly discolored.

Height 28 mm, diameter 17 mm

For similar published examples see:
-Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 30: 65
-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