Segmented gold-glass bead with smooth ends. Double layers of clear glass with gold foil in between.
Bead is intact, in good condition for its age and few minor ancient losses of outer layer.
D. 11 mm, H. 25 mm
For similar published smaller 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, 2011, p. 218: #298
- M.Spaer. Ancient glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and other small objects, Jerusalem, 2001, p. 138: #239.
- Alexeeva E.M. Antichniye busi severnogo prichernomoriya, Academy of Science, Moscow, 1978, table 26: 6.