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Ancient Roman beads: intact genuine Roman/Egyptian mosaic glass bead w
Ancient Roman beads: intact genuine Roman/Egyptian mosaic glass bead w

Ancient Roman beads: intact genuine Roman/Egyptian mosaic glass bead w "waves"

$ 686.4

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

    Description

    Roman mosaic bead
    Egypt
    Date: 1-2 century
    Mosaic glass
    Barrel shaped bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Central band is composed of two mirrored  rows of "running waves".
    Intact, good condition.
    Height 16 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. 207: 284
    - M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p.123: 203
    - Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48:23