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Genuine ancient Roman beads: mosaic glass bead with flower, 2 century, Egypt
Genuine ancient Roman beads: mosaic glass bead with flower, 2 century, Egypt

Genuine ancient Roman beads: mosaic glass bead with flower, 2 century, Egypt

$ 237.6

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

Roman mosaic glass bead with flower
design
Date: 2-3 century
Mosaic cane glass
Bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Mosaic strip is composed of three sections of a complex mosaic cane with flower design.
Intact, very good condition.
Height 12 mm, diameter 14 mm
For similar beads in museum collections 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. 165: 207-2