Mosaic bead

433MSM
Byzantine / Viking mosaic glass bead
Date: 8- 9 century
Mosaic glass

Bead's matrix is made up of sections of premanufactured mosaic cane, consisted of concentric blue, white, red with yellow center. 
Intact, good condition.

Height 11 mm, diameter 11 mm

For published similar beads see:

- Arbman, Holger,  Birka 1 Die Graber: Tafeln. [The Graves: Plates] Birka, Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 1940, taf.122- 11d.

- A.Panini, Middle Eastern and Venetian Glass Beads, Skira, 2007, p. 52 #51, p. 58 #80