Mosaic eye

338MSM        
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass bead
Date: 7 - 9 century
Mosaic cane glass

Bead's matrix is made up of 8 sections of premanufactured blue glass canes with blue-in-white centers.   Seams are clearly visible.

Intact, good condition.
Height 9 mm, diameter 10 mm.

Published archaeological examples of similar beads: 
- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, color pl.4: G012
-  A. Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 84.