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Medieval

Sales price $45.00
Medieval glass eye bead 387EMMedieval glass eye bead 387EM
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Description

387EM
Glass bead with mosaic cane eyes
8 - 9 century 
Medieval : Byzantine / Islamic 

 

Semi-transparent blue glass matrix with four eyes- sections of premanufactured glass canes with yellow around blue center.  
Intact, good condition.
Height 8 mm, diameter 10 mm.

For published similar beads see:
-  A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 97.