Ancient Roman Beads: Mosaic Glass Bead With Crosses, 1 Century
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:358996 | Country/Region of Manufacture: Egypt |
Color: Multi-Color | Material: Glass |
Date: 1 century <...br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Mosaic cane glass
Drawn mosaic cane with yellow outer layer over greenish glass core, with three "+" of a premanufactured mosaic white-red-white strips and three mosaic cane eyes in between. Intact, ancient partial loss of an eye. Height 11 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: 57-58