Mosaic bead

243MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 7- 9 century
Mosaic glass

Oval in cross section, bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of concentric blue, white, red with yellow center. 
Intact, good condition.

Height 15 mm, diameter 9 mm

For published similar beads see:

-  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 52 #51, p. 58 #80