Medieval

386EM
Medieval Eye bead
7- 9 century 

Light greenish transparent glass matrix bead with three composite yellow-red-white eyes.
Diameter: 1.0 cm
Height:    1.0 cm
Intact, very good condition.

For similar published beads in museum collections see:

-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p. 40 #153
-  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 58 #83, p. 97