Mosaic bead

24MSM

Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead

Date: 6 - 9 century

Mosaic cane glass

Bead's matrix is made up of sections of different premanufactured multicolored mosaic canes.   

Intact, good condition.
 
Height 12 mm, diameter 13 mm.

For published archaeological examples 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. 204- cat.276-4
- V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, cat. 260, 261