Mosaic bead

393MSM
Byzantine / Viking mosaic glass bead
Date: 9 century
Mosaic glass

Flattened bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic red and yellow canes, forming a cross with smaller green cross in the center. 

Intact, good condition. Rare. Height 15 mm, length 14 mm, width 5 mm

 For similar published beads in museum collections see:

-R. Andrae, Mosaikaugenperlen. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung und Datierung karolingerzeitlicher Millefioriglasperlen in Europa. Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 4, 1973, pl.1- 05. 

- J. Callmer,Trade beads and bead trade in Scandinavia ca. 800-1000 A.D., 1977, pl.IV: J001.

- V. Kovalevskaya, Komputernaya obrabotka massovogo arhaeologicheskogo materiala is rannesrednevekovih pamyatnikov Evrasii, Moscow, 2000, #217.