Mosaic bead

241MSM
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 9 mm, diameter 12 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