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Genuine ancient Roman beads: Roman mosaic glass wreath bead, 1 cent BC - 1 cent
Genuine ancient Roman beads: Roman mosaic glass wreath bead, 1 cent BC - 1 cent

Genuine ancient Roman beads: Roman mosaic glass wreath bead, 1 cent BC - 1 cent

$ 950.4

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Featured Refinements: Ancient Roman reticella bead
  • Color: Multi-Color
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Egypt
  • Material: Glass
  • Condition: Used

    Description

    Roman bead
    Date: 1 century BCE- 1 century
    Mosaic glass
    Bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is composed of cane sections of interlocking branches and leaves of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), forming a complete circular laurel wreath - a powerful symbol of victory since antiquity.
    Intact, very good condition.
    Height 14 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. 159: 204-2