Roman gold-foil glass bead
1-2 century CE
Eastern Mediterranean or Persia

Flattened segmented gold-glass bead. Smooth collared ends. 
Intact.

L. 10 mm, D. 7 mm, H. 4 mm

For similar published examples in museum collections see:

- Ve´ronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, p.151: cat 196, 2011, p. 154 # 199.
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 26 # 70