Eye bead

305EM
Byzantine / Islamic mosaic glass eye bead
Date: 8 - 9 century

Yellow matrix with three eyes- sections of premanufactured glass canes with green/yellow around green center.  
Intact, good condition.
Height 8 mm, diameter 10 mm.

For published similar beads see:
- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, pl I, #B2400
-  V.Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, p.44, p.91 #160