Mosaic bead

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Migration period mosaic bead

Date: 5-7 century

Mosaic glass

Elongated bead's matrix is formed by folding a premanufactured mosaic strip over a rod. Composed of applied alternatively square sections: concentric with red center and green dots, grouped by four. Red caps at each end.

Intact, very good condition.
Height 22 mm, diameter 8 mm

For similar beads see:
-Véronique Arveiller-Dulong, Marie-Dominique Nenna.  Les Verres antiques du Musée du Louvre III : Parure, instruments et éléments d’incrustation, Paris, Éditions du Louvre, Somogy, 2011, p. 206: 281