SEVEN 'PORTRAITS OF A LADY', wearing flat-topped long brown headdress tied under chin(?) and neck, opaque red and white, in turquoise matrix with cobalt blue surround

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SEVEN 'PORTRAITS OF A LADY', wearing flat-topped long brown headdress tied under chin(?) and neck, opaque red and white, in turquoise matrix with cobalt blue surround
0.5cm. square
circa 1st Century A.D. (7)

Lot Essay

Cf. lot 49, bead into which a similar bust has been incorporated; Goldstein, no. 497; also The Corning Museum of Glass no. 55.1.82, in which a similar bust has been inserted into a patella cup. Is it possible in this headdress to foresee the later nun's habit?

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