Mosaic bead

8MSM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: VII-IX century
Mosaic cane glass

Perforated section of premanufactured in several stages mosaic cane, consisted  of multiple green and yellow single glass canes, placed around red in yellow glass cane.
Height 10 mm. Diameter 11 mm.

For published similar beads see:

-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.68 #231.

-  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 58 #90 (mosaic cane).