Roman mosaic cane face bead
Egypt 
Date: 1 century  
Mosaic glass 

Rod pierced section of complex mosaic cane. Round face with features in black. Lower part of face is outlined in red. The whole head is outlined in black with outside white border. 
Intact, weathered glass. 

Height 4 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. 208: 289

- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1982, table 48: 35-38

- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 124: 208