Mosaic bead

425MSM
Byzantine / Viking mosaic glass bead
Date: 9 century
Mosaic glass

Flattened bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic green and yellow canes, forming a cross with blue center with black and white radius lines around red center. 

Intact, good condition. Rare. Height 11 mm, length 10 mm, width 4 mm

 For similar published beads in museum collections see:

- H. Arbman, Arbman, Holger (1940) Birka 1 Die Graber: Tafeln. [The Graves: Plates] Birka, Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och       Antikvitets Akademien, Taf.121, 9g.

-R. Andrae, Mosaikaugenperlen. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung und Datierung karolingerzeitlicher Millefioriglasperlen in Europa. Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 4, 1973, pl.2- 06. 

- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, pl.IV: J002.

- V. Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, #278.